Microsoft, Packeteer team on branch office appliance
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Microsoft and Packeteer will jointly announce the Packeteer iShaper, an appliance for branch offices designed to combine WAN optimization with native Windows applications, on Monday.
The appliance starts at $11,000 and is expected to ship later in the second quarter, said officials at both companies. Microsoft and Packeteer said they are collaborating on engineering and marketing.
With iShaper, branch office workers will be able to manage and speed up WAN traffic with greater security and at lower cost, Bala Kasiviswanathan, director of Windows server branch and storage solutions at Microsoft, said in a telephone briefing.