Mountain View, CA and Cupertino, CA.
November 12, 2002
Continuing to build on success in the healthcare
market, Packeteer®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PKTR), a leading provider of
application-intelligent traffic management solutions, today
announced that Tacoma Radiation Oncology Center and Western
Washington Oncology had deployed Packeteer’s PacketShaper® systems
to enhance the performance of their oncology information
management solutions.
Both centers implemented PacketShaper to improve application
performance on their wide-area networks (WAN). This implementation
will prioritize IMPAC’s oncology management software solutions at
both facilities by eliminating conflicts between competing
applications on healthcare networks, and will reprioritize the
transfer of DICOM-based images so as not to compete with
mission-critical applications.
At Tacoma Radiation, where remote locations are connected by T1
lines, electronic images were winning the battle for bandwidth,
slowing the transfer of critical data. To remedy the situation,
PacketShaper will classify all traffic and allow network managers
to give mission-critical data priority over the less
time-sensitive image transfers.
“Our application performance has improved tremendously since we
installed PacketShaper,” said Steve Bader, COO of Tacoma
Radiation. “With PacketShaper, we’re able to give the more
critical applications, such as cancer information management, the
bandwidth they need while balancing less time-sensitive traffic,
such as image transfers.”
At Western Washington Oncology, a variety of applications were
competing with the IMPAC traffic, which was being accessed by more
than 30 remote sites via Citrix. Windows updates in the main
office, employees downloading files, people sending large email
attachments, and even people listening to Internet radio all
contributed to degradation of the application performance.
“I can’t imagine running IMPAC with Citrix connections and not
having a PacketShaper on the line,” said Craig Wyzik, IT manager
for Western Washington Oncology. “The performance improvement and
ease of administration makes the purchase of PacketShaper easy to
justify; as our CFO said, ‘we can’t not have it.’”
PacketShaper is an application-intelligent traffic management
system that delivers predictable, efficient performance for
applications running over the WAN and Internet. The combination of
its layer-7 classification, analysis, control, and reporting
capabilities enables network administrators to keep critical
traffic moving at an appropriate pace through bandwidth
bottlenecks and prevents any single type of traffic from
monopolizing the link.
“These deployments illustrate one of the many ways that
PacketShaper systems can be used to benefit healthcare networks,”
said Todd Krautkremer, vice president of marketing for Packeteer.
“Classifying traffic and giving some types priority over others
can be, in these environments, truly mission-critical.”
About IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of information
technology systems for cancer care. IMPAC’s products provide an
integrated clinical and administrative solution to manage the
complexities of cancer care, from detection and diagnosis through
treatment and follow-up. Specializing in the development of
practice management, electronic medical record, image management
and decision support software, IMPAC offers practical solutions
that help healthcare providers better manage the process of
delivering care. IMPAC is privately held and is based in Mountain
View, Calif. IMPAC systems are utilized daily in over 1,500
facilities in 52 countries. For more information about IMPAC
Medical Systems’ products and services, please call 650-623-8800.
About Packeteer
Packeteer® (NASDAQ: PKTR) makes business applications perform over
the WAN and the Internet. Its application-intelligent traffic
management solutions give customers control over networked
applications, extend network resources and align application
performance with business priorities. Packeteer solutions also
enable service providers to deliver differentiated services and
guarantee service levels while extending WAN resources. Packeteer
products are designed to maximize the value of business
applications across wide-area networks, containing costs and
saving customers money. Packeteer's products are deployed by
Global 2000 corporations and service providers, and sold through
more than 100 resellers, distributors and system integrators in
more than 50 countries. For more information, contact Packeteer
via telephone at +1 408 873 4400, fax + 1 408 873 4410, send email
to info@packeteer.com, or visit the company’s web site at
www.packeteer.com. Packeteer is headquartered in Cupertino,
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Michelle Arnold
Public Relations Manager
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.
650-623-8883
pr@impac.com
http://www.impac.com
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