Cytec Industries Adopts PacketShaper To Manage Bandwidth On Nationwide Frame Relay Network.

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1998--Cytec Industries, one of the world's leading chemical companies, has rolled out a nationwide bandwidth-management solution from Packeteer, Inc., to ensure the prompt and predictable delivery of mission-critical application traffic traveling between its 21 U.S. locations.

Cytec has installed 21 of Packeteer's PacketShaper bandwidth managers in its Cisco-based frame relay network to manage application traffic between the company's West Paterson, N.J., headquarters and its remote offices, including full- scale manufacturing plants, sales offices of various sizes, and self-contained firms that Cytec has acquired. Ten of the units are PacketShaper 2000s, which manage bandwidth on T1- speed connections up to 10 Mbps; and 11 are PacketShaper 1000s, which support speeds up to 384 Kbps.

Ray Capriolo, global communications manager for Cytec Industries, said the company began two years ago to consolidate its order-entry traffic, which had been running on a dedicated network, into a new enterprise frame relay network.

"We were concerned that critical traffic generated by our new corporate order-entry system -- BPCS Client/Server Version 6.0 from Systems Software Associates -- wouldn't get sufficient bandwidth if it were running on the same network as Internet browsing, electronic mail, file transfers, Lotus Notes, and so on," Capriolo said. "Similarly, a company we had recently acquired, Fiberite in Phoenix, Ariz., wanted to make sure its Baan and Lab Information Management System (LIMS) applications would get priority over other traffic.

"PacketShaper automatically discovers all the types of traffic on our network and how much bandwidth each type uses, then prioritizes the critical types according to policies we set," he said. "We can use it in as granular a manner as we wish, delivering explicit rate control for BPCS and letting all other traffic types fight it out for the remaining bandwidth, or, as we do in one case, setting up a hierarchy of priorities to address a particular site's problems with receiving e-mail."

Cytec Industries Inc. is a vertically integrated, specialty chemicals company that focuses on value-added specialty products. The company develops, manufactures and markets specialty chemicals, specialty materials and building block chemicals serving a broad group of end users, including the aerospace, plastics, coatings, mining, paper, water treatment and automotive industries.

Packeteer was founded in 1995 to develop products that address the problem of increasingly overcrowded bandwidth resources on enterprise networks and the Internet. The award-winning PacketShaper bandwidth-management device lets network managers and Internet service providers set and enforce policies to prioritize and control network traffic, ensuring users end-to-end quality of service. More than 1,500 customers worldwide use PacketShaper to ensure that their networks are always available to deliver their mission- critical applications and protect their investments in costly wide-area and international connections. For more information, contact Packeteer at [phone], fax [phone]; or visit the Packeteer Web site at http://www.packeteer.com.