ET vs Competitor's Bandwidth Manager Appliance Comparision

Below is a feature comparision of our low and high range products versus a selected product from two of our "competitors". It seems that their strategy is to hope that you don't know about our products. Too late now.

	ET/R2400	ET/R2800	Allot AC-302	Packeteer 10000ISP
Base System List Price:	$4,645.	$14,750.	~$12,000.	~$73,400*
Updates/Premium Support:	$550./ year	$550/year	~$1800./ year	~$9000./ year
Operating System:	FreeBSD 7.0	FreeBSD 7.0	Linux 2.6	Proprietary
CPU	Dual Core Intel 2.0Ghz	Quad Core Intel 3.0Ghz	???	???
Physical Network	10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet	10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet	10/100Mb/s Ethernet	10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet
System Throughput	45Mb/s**	3Gb/s**	90Mb/s	1Gb/s
Number of Policy Definitions	Unlimited	Unlimited	4096	5000
Number of Classes	Unlimited*	Unlimited*	1024	5000
Number of Connections	Unlimited	Unlimited	64000	1.4 Million
Packets/Second Shaping	Yes	Yes	No	No
Bursting w/Multiple Triggers	Yes	Yes	No	No
Auto-Shaping	Yes	Yes	No	No
Auto-Update over Internet	Yes	Yes	No	No
p2p Protocol Tracking: Kazaa, Morpheus, etc	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Management Interface:	HTML only	HTML only	Java (slow)	HTML
Traffic Monitor	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
TCP Window Control	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Accounting/Statistics Database	Yes	Yes	Yes (extra $$$)	Yes
Hardware Failover/Bypass	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

*Our product doesn't require setting up a "pipe", but there are no limits to groupings of policies.
**Estimated Usable Capacity. There is no physical or logical limit
Note: Information on non-ET products may be gathered from 3rd parties and/or outdated. Check with the manufacturer to be certain.