Blue Coat Systems, recently announced that Blue Dart has deployed Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to more efficiently utilize network resources to deploy new advanced services.

Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances deliver the application accountability that enables Blue Dart to reclaim bandwidth on the network for videoconferencing deployments throughout its branch offices.

Speaking about the deployment, Gautam Sen, Senior Manager, Electronic Network at Blue Dart, said, “Prior to the deployment of the Blue Coat solution, we needed to increase our bandwidth every year to make our applications run better.  With PacketShaper appliances, we are optimizing our bandwidth by effectively monitoring and managing our applications.  As a result, we have not only realized a full return on our investment in less than a year but also were able to deploy video conferencing in our branch offices without adding additional bandwidth.”

Prior to deploying Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances, Blue Dart relied on Layer 2 and Layer 3 information to optimize its network. Blue Dart claims this could not provide in-depth visibility into the applications running on the network. With PacketShaper appliances, Blue Dart says it now has granular application-level visibility into applications on the network, the performance and characteristics of those applications and the end-user experience.

Blue Coat Systems says its PacketShaper appliances can identify more than 600 applications and monitor more than 100 metrics per application session, providing network administrators with the in-depth information they need to understand the impact of applications on the network.

Utilizing the detailed application intelligence that PacketShaper provides, Blue Dart can set bandwidth limits, classify and prioritize business-critical applications and maintain quality of service levels on an application basis from a single integrated workspace.