Packeteer (R) Incorporated, founded in 1996 and based in Cupertino, California, provides over 7,000 clients with WAN application optimization systems and services. The firm is known for its PacketShaper (R), iShared (TM), and SkyX (R) Accelerator appliances, which support the real-time monitoring, compression, optimization, and management of application traffic. The systems scale to handle increasing data processing requirements. PacketShaper appliances provide users with centralized management, performance and exception reporting, and policy provisioning features. The products integrate with existing network systems. Packeteer's Layer 7 Plus application classification technology validates traffic types. It identifies 500 application services. It also identifies Web, customized eXtensible Markup Language (XML) application, and encrypted traffic. The firm's Xpress TCP, Xpress XML, and Xpress HTTP speed file, application, and Web transfers and transactions. The firm also provides customers with threat detection, anti-virus, failover, and other data and WAN security systems. The firm's products support quality of service management, voice and video communication, real-time file collaboration, application server and storage consolidation, and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) migration processes. Packeteer has shipped over 50,000 products to enterprise and IP network services clients worldwide. The firm holds 22 U.S. patents on its systems. Packeteer is listed on NASDAQ under the PKTR symbol.