--- title: "Application Control Gateway for SMBs, SMEs and Remote Branches" date: "2022-04-26T14:48:20+00:00" url: "https://www.allot.com/enterprise/application-control-gateway/" description: "Application Control for SMBs and Enterprises with remote branches to assure excellent Digital Experience and the ability to control application performance to meet business priorities." --- # Application Control Gateway for SMBs, SMEs and Remote Branches - [ The Need](#theneed) - [ Benefits](#benefits) - [ Features](#features) - [ Resources](#resources) - [ Product Family](#product-family) - [ Related Solutions](#related-solutions) [‹](https://www.allot.com/products-enterprise/ddos-secure/) [›](https://www.allot.com/products-enterprise/secure-service-gateway/) PRODUCTS FOR ENTERPRISE Assures excellent Digital Experience and enables you to control application performance to meet your business priorities, with low TCO [Get in touch »](#getintouch) ![Application Control Gateway for SMBs, SMEs and Remote Branches](https://www.allot.com/resources/Product_pages_ACG_SG_SSG_Header.png) ## Needs & Challenges An excellent Digital Experience for employees and customers is fundamental for your business efficiency and reputation. Whether you are a small business with no IT staff, a growing mid-size business, or running a big enterprise with distributed branches and offices, intelligent insight and control over your applications and user behavior are key components for excellent Digital Experience. ## Benefits ![Improves Business Efficiency](https://www.allot.com/resources/SSG_1.4_Benefits_Improves-IT-Business-Efficiency.svg)Improves Business Efficiency Assures an optimized Digital Experience for your employees and prioritized business applications. ![Protects Continuity and Reputation](https://www.allot.com/resources/Benefits_Protect_reputation.svg)Protects Continuity and Reputation Ensures your business-critical applications and online business services receive top priority. ![Application Control with Low TCO](https://www.allot.com/resources/Benefits_Application_Control-01.svg)Application Control with Low TCO Saves IT resources through intuitive & easy-to-use UI, which fosters DIY deployment & ongoing use of the system ## Features 360⁰ net visibility & real time troubleshooting ACG provides 360⁰ granular visibility into your network, application, and user behavior for the decision makers in your organization. Real-time monitoring, usage metrics, Digital Experience quality, and online behavior dashboards help you visualize all traffic, analyze impacts on network performance, rapidly troubleshoot issues, and take prompt corrective actions as needed. Risky and recreational applications, BYOD, shadow IT, and other bandwidth “hungry” applications are identified and graphically displayed. Dashboards are self-customized, so the data you want is always available. [LEARN MORE…](https://www.allot.com/resources/ClearSee_forEn.pdf) Dynamic Actionable Recognition Tech (DART) Allot’s DART engine, embedded in the platform and powered by supervised and unsupervised ML & AI algorithms, inspects every single packet, even encrypted traffic without SSL inspection. Embedded in the ACG is Allot’s extensive signature library, which identifies thousands of web applications and protocols and supports user-defined signatures. Automated DART applications and protocol pack updates from the Allot cloud keep your deployment up to date with the latest application and web developments to ensure accurate traffic classification. Excellent Digital Experience through true QoS, and QoE score True QoS is achieved by virtually partitioning LAN/WAN/internet resources, so users/applications no longer compete with one another for bandwidth. QoE score is calculated for any web application, consolidating multiple performance metrics, including jitter, delay, packet loss, error, and many additional indicators. Granular visibility & QoE score, powerful policy tools, and intuitive UI help you define & enforce Acceptable Use Policy and prioritize business-critical applications. DIY deployment and on-going use The ACG provides an intuitive and simple onboarding process that enables a ‘DIY deployment’ process for your IT team, saving you additional expenses related to dedicated training. ACG’s intuitive and easy-to-use UI enables your IT staff to take full ownership of the daily system use with its advanced analytics and control capabilities. Ideal PacketShaper replacement [ALLOT WAS CHOSEN BY BROADCOM](https://www.allot.com/corporate/media-center/press-releases/broadcom-offer-symantec-packetshaper-customers-transition-to-allot-ssg/) as the recommended vendor for the transition from the discontinued PacketShaper line of products. Thanks to its rich visibility and control capabilities, the Allot ACG is the ideal replacement for PacketShaper for small and medium enterprises in all types of industry verticals. For a smooth and easy transition, Allot provides a migration tool that automatically migrates PacketShaper-defined policies to Allot policies. [Download the brochure](https://www.allot.com/resources-center/brochure/allot-application-control-gateway-2000/) [ ![](https://www.allot.com/resources/Features_ENT_ACG_1.4.svg) ](https://www.allot.com/resources/Features_ENT_ACG_1.4.svg) ## Resources ![Traffic Intelligence Platform – Centralized Management (NetXplorer)](https://www.allot.com/resources/MicrosoftTeams-image-29.jpg) ![Product/Solution Info](https://www.allot.com/resources/icon-type-brochure.svg) Product/Solution Info Traffic Intelligence Platform – Centralized Management (NetXplorer) Network Visibility , Traffic Management , Digital Experience Monitoring ![Allot Application Control Gateway (ACG) 500](https://www.allot.com/resources/New-Project-10.png) ![Product/Solution Info](https://www.allot.com/resources/icon-type-brochure.svg) Product/Solution Info Allot Application Control Gateway (ACG) 500 Network Visibility , Traffic Management , QoE Assurance , Digital Experience Monitoring ![Allot Application Control Gateway (ACG) 2000](https://www.allot.com/resources/New-Project-10.png) ![Product/Solution Info](https://www.allot.com/resources/icon-type-brochure.svg) Product/Solution Info Allot Application Control Gateway (ACG) 2000 Network Visibility , Traffic Management , QoE Assurance , Digital Experience Monitoring ![PacketShaper Migration: Quick Guide](https://www.allot.com/resources/PacketShaper.png) ![Product/Solution Info](https://www.allot.com/resources/icon-type-brochure.svg) Product/Solution Info PacketShaper Migration: Quick Guide Network Visibility , Traffic Management , QoE Assurance , Digital Experience Monitoring ![Application Control and Traffic Shaping: key factors to consider](https://www.allot.com/resources/Allot_Application_Control_and_Traffic_Shaping_20201011_850x400.jpg) ![Blog Post](https://www.allot.com/resources/Blog.svg) Blog Post Application Control and Traffic Shaping: key factors to consider Network Visibility , Traffic Management , QoE Assurance , Digital Experience Monitoring ![Related resources](/assets/img/product-pages/resources-bg1.jpg) ## Product Family [ ![SSG – Medium & Large Enterprises](https://www.allot.com/resources/Products_Family_SSG-01.svg)SSG – Medium & Large Enterprises Excellent Digital Experience, alignment of network/app performance & business priorities, quick troubleshooting. ](https://www.allot.com/products-enterprise/secure-service-gateway/) [ ![SG – Large Enterprises](https://www.allot.com/resources/Products_Family_SG-01-1.svg)SG – Large Enterprises Excellent Digital Experience, alignment of network/app performance & business priorities, quick troubleshooting. ](https://www.allot.com/products-enterprise/service-gateway) [ ![DDoS Secure for Enterprise](https://www.allot.com/resources/Products_Family_Secure_SMBs_SMEs-01.svg)DDoS Secure for Enterprise Mitigate volumetric DDoS attacks and neutralize outbound threats before they impact your service and business. ](https://www.allot.com/products-enterprise/ddos-secure/) ## Related Solutions [ ![Digital Experience Monitoring](https://www.allot.com/resources/Related_Solutions_Digital-experience-Monitoring-01.svg)Digital Experience Monitoring Ensure consistent and excellent Digital Experience for your online services and business-critical applications. ](https://www.allot.com/enterprise/digital-experience-monitoring/) [ ![Traffic Intelligence and Motioning](https://www.allot.com/resources/Related_Solutions_Traffic-Intelligence.svg)Traffic Intelligence and Motioning Shed light on the enterprise network, empowering BI, operational efficiency, and security forensics. ](https://www.allot.com/enterprise/network-monitoring/) [ ![QoE and Application Control](https://www.allot.com/resources/Related_Solutions_Application_Control.svg)QoE and Application Control Provides visibility and quick troubleshooting, aligning application performance with business priorities. ](https://www.allot.com/enterprise/qos-traffic-shaping/) [ ![DDoS Protection](https://www.allot.com/resources/Related_Solutions_-Behavior_Anomaly_Detection-01.svg)DDoS Protection With advanced ML & AI, DDoS/bot attacks & bot-infected hosts are identified & infrastructure is protected. ](https://www.allot.com/enterprise/ddos-protection/) [![Allot See Control Secure](https://www.allot.com/assets/img/footer/allot-logo.png)](/) Company - [About Allot](/corporate/about/) - [Blog](https://www.allot.com/blog/) - [Careers](/careers/) - [Contact Us](/contact-us/) - [CyberHub](https://cyberhub.allot.com/) Terms of Use - [Privacy Policy](/privacy-policy/) - [Accessibility Statement](https://www.allot.com/accessibility-statement/) - [Get support](https://customers.allot.com/) - [Terms of Use](/terms-of-use/) - [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/company/allot-communications/) - [ ](https://www.youtube.com/c/Allotltd) - [ ](https://x.com/allot_ltd) - [ ](https://www.instagram.com/allot_ltd/) Copyright 2026 Allot. 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