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To: Paul Engel who wrote (106245)	7/27/2000 3:19:16 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - The following article - and another one in my next post - describe Intel's deepening business relationships in the Internet infrastructure - both hardware and software. These "relationships" are a bit arcane to most of us who typically think of CPUS, chip sets, etc., but they give a clear indication as to the progress Intel is making at becoming a major contributor and "player" in the burgeoning Internet Economy. Paul {===================================} Packeteer expands Intel pact, moves into policy management By Loring Wirbel, EE Times Jul 26, 2000 (1:12 PM) URL: eetimes.com CUPERTINO, Calif. — Packeteer Inc. hopes to shed its image as a bandwidth-shaping company that has a box sitting at the edge of the wide-area network by offering more hardware and software for direct policy management. Part of the effort is homegrown, in the form of a new suite of control software called PacketWise 5.0. Packeteer also is relying on some outside help to aid its efforts. The company is expanding its relationship with Intel Corp. to use some of the technology Intel acquired from IPivot Inc. last year. And Packeteer is adding to the mix some caching and content-acceleration technology it acquired from Canadian startup Workfire Technologies Inc. earlier this month. Todd Krautkremer, vice president of worldwide marketing at Packeteer, said that the expanded packet-classification capabilities of the new software allowed better control of bandwidth-hogging traffic, including traffic that changes its own presentation profile, such as Napster's presentation of MP3 databases. The enhanced software is capable of studying both header and payload in an Internet Protocol packet flow, which will make Packeteer's systems more applicable for large service-provider networks. The company's business already had been shifting from an enterprise to service-provider orientation, Krautkremer said, and the debut of Release 5.0 expanded the size of networks to which the company's technology can scale. Packeteer has turned to the Extensible Markup Language for an open interface to both end-user and service-provider networks. That has eased the integration of the new PacketWise suite with Hewlett-Packard Co.'s OpenView and other network-management systems (NMS). The new software also embeds a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol V3 client, allowing the software to talk to policy packages based on LDAP directory networking. But in addition to interfacing to existing NMS and policy-management packages, Packeteer has launched its own policy-management software suite, called PolicyCenter. The system uses the LDAP client and a Windows NT operating system to create a centralized console of rule-based access to network services. Only those network nodes running PacketWise can respond to policy mandates and configuration-management rules, though all nodes on the network are visible through PolicyCenter. In theory, there is little overlap between Packeteer's own bandwidth-shaping systems and the Web-front-end bandwidth shapers Intel gained from IPivot. But in practice, the Secure Sockets Layer technology developed by IPivot was of interest to Packeteer, which gained it in an OEM deal that led to the launch of Packeteer's "Internet Accelerator" product, the iSX-50. Krautkremer said that as Packeteer began dealing more with application service providers and hosted service providers, it needed a server-centric product to round out its PacketShaper and AppVantage hardware. Intel gained something from the deal as well. The company's NetStructure 7340 Traffic Shaper and 7370 Application Shaper are based largely on technology acquired from Packeteer on an OEM basis. The last piece of content acceleration that was key to Packeteer's 2000 business plan was gained from the acquisition of Workfire (Kelowna, British Columbia). Krautkremer described the Workfire software as "cache-enabled acceleration" that could be used in conjunction with any of the other three caching technologies in the market. The only direct competitor to Workfire is a startup called BoostWorks, he said. Unlike technology requiring pre-fetches, the Workfire suite of compression and proxy caching requires no changes in any client system. Packeteer will use the Workfire and Intel technologies as one of several content-acceleration vehicles that will act as adjuncts to Packeteer's own packet-classification hardware and policy software.