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Blue Coat PacketShaper Reviews (4)

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Gagandeep S.

Network Security Engineer-3

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/17/2022

"Blue Coat PacketShaper review"

4/5

What do you like best about Blue Coat PacketShaper?

I like the application visibility of Blue Coat PacketShaper. Application signatures detect traffic as an application, and you have complete visibility of what is passing through your network. What traffic to rate limit etc. Instead of rate limiting traffic based upon TCP/UDP ports, you can do it based upon applications is very nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blue Coat PacketShaper?

I think Blue Coat packet shaper should provide more insights into reporting. The custom reports should be at more granular levels and shall provide more filters to get more insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blue Coat PacketShaper:

I definitely recommend this product as i have seen very less glitches with it. It works very nicely if configured correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blue Coat PacketShaper solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are optimizing and rate limiting the traffic with Bluecoat packet shaper. We had recently encountered a scenario where users can pull updates from SCCM over remote access VPN tunnel and when updates were pushed and all the users start downloading the updates, causing the internet link of the organization to have high bandwidth utilization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/17/2022

"One of the best solution in the market to monitor and control the performance"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Blue Coat PacketShaper?

The best part of the BC Packet shaper is its super simplistic user interface.

Also the granularity with which we can prioritize the traffic makes it must have in our network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blue Coat PacketShaper?

Their adoption towards the cloud PS is very slow.

Would have liked if they introduced cloud version of PS earlier.

Also its categorization engine seems to be bit slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mukesh Kumar A.

Entrepreneur, Consultant, Learner

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/19/2022

"Blue Coat PacketShaper"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Blue Coat PacketShaper?

Real-time monitoring features such as identification and classification of various applications with better performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blue Coat PacketShaper?

Expecting improved performance for handling traffic in complex networks like ours involving legacy as well as latest technologies for us and our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.