Name: Blue Coat PacketShaper
Rating: 4.3 (6 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Blue Coat PacketShaper?

Blue Coat PacketShaper is a network traffic management software that provides visibility and control over application and network performance. The software identifies, classifies, and monitors network traffic, allowing organizations to manage bandwidth usage and prioritize applications critical to business operations. It helps address issues related to network congestion and inefficient bandwidth utilization by enabling administrators to set policies for different types of network traffic. PacketShaper is designed to enhance user experience and support business continuity by optimizing network resources and reducing the impact of non-essential or disruptive applications.

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Network Enginner

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees, Services (non-Government)

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“Implementation is very easy but more improvement required on auto generated report.”

4.0

Sep 25, 2018

We have implemented the BlueCoat Packet Shaper 4 month ago in our organization. Our overall experience on average. Not bad or not more good also. First is we are not able to create any user, auto generated report is showing volume (application usage data amount) it should be bandwidth. When we create manual report then its only graph based report so any non technical person (management level) will not understand that.

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Company Description

Broadcom Inc. is a global entity focusing on the design, development, and supply of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Through these operations, the firm addresses the primary issue of providing efficient top-notch technology-based solutions.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1960

Head office location

San Jose, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://www.broadcom.com

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We do not required more downtime to implement this solution in our live Network, if everything is ready then only max 1 min downtime if more enough for discovery mode.

Shaping and traffic priority.

Very easy to administer

The auto generated report is not as report. because if our product is for bandwidth control purpose then why its showing application volume instead of bandwidth. with that volume how can we configure partition. I think this need to improve in very soon.

User awareness doesn't work well and S400 model that is difficult to connect to Intelligence Center for report creation.

Your categorization service (Web Pulse) to create the classes is not very good.

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4.3

(6 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star: 17%
4 Star: 83%
3 Star: 0%
2 Star: 0%
1 Star: 0%

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

3.6

Integration & Deployment

4.2

Service & Support

3.7

Product Capabilities

4.2

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Network Enginner
Gov't/PS/Ed
Services (non-Government)
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Implementation is very easy but more improvement required on auto generated report.
4.0
Sep 25, 2018
We have implemented the BlueCoat Packet Shaper 4 month ago in our organization. Our overall experience on average. Not bad or not more good also. First is we are not able to create any user, auto generated report is showing volume (application usage data amount) it should be bandwidth. When we create manual report then its only graph based report so any non technical person (management level) will not understand that.
Senior Network Admin
50M-1B USD
Education
Review Source
It is easy to manage and there are many of different application for traffic priority.
4.0
Oct 2, 2018
I have experienced with Packetshaper over three years from 10000 model to S400 model, in general, they help me administer to bandwidth priority for various of business traffic
Security Specialist
<50M USD
Miscellaneous
Review Source
Easy deployment and very versatile administration
5.0
Aug 30, 2018
It is an easy-to-deploy solution, with class management for controlling bandwidth, qos and others. Very easy to administer.
Director, Information Technology
50M-1B USD
Education
Review Source
Easy Implementation
4.0
Jul 27, 2017
We worked directly with Blue Coat for product selection and implementation. Their pre-sales team was great to work with. The on-site implementation specialist was very efficient in helping us get the appliances installed and running in our production environment.
Manager of Information Technology
50M-1B USD
Energy and Utilities
Review Source
Good product, but high price per unit of bandwidth
4.0
Apr 11, 2017
Great product. We had limited access to bandwidth, and as a result had to turn to other options to ensure business data was able to be processed efficiently. The hardware was reliable and the results were impressive.

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Overall experience with Blue Coat PacketShaper

“Implementation is very easy but more improvement required on auto generated report.”