Perspectives in the Intelligent LifeCycle Series

Business processes have become automated to speed up the delivery of information, decision making and execution of all business tasks. The challenge is to deliver business wide area network applications across the distributed enterprise, but too often, these applications fail to perform adequately, undermining the productivity of the distributed enterprise. Indications that a problem exists within the WAN architecture include:

• Slow or unavailable applications
• Complaints from end users
• Increased bandwidth demand and costs
• Complex distributed IT systems

The Intelligent LifeCycle provides a guideline to steer you through WAN and Internet performance issues. The approach is four simple steps that begin with Intelligence and lead to high performance application delivery and application optimization:

• Assess: Identify what applications are running WAN network, what approached to take to resolve issues, and continuously monitor network application performance.
• Provision: Create network resource policies to align network resources with the business through appropriate network management.
• Accelerate: Apply technologies to enhance performance and capacity.
• Extend: Create an intelligent overlay that extends and adapts current WAN infrastructure to new emerging issues.

The Intelligent LifeCycle is an approach to analyzing, planning, and executing an effective strategy for high performance application delivery over the WAN. Packeteer delivers a complete system deployed through the Intelligent LifeCycle, to ensure great user experience for every application at every location.