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Procera Networks

What We Do

Procera Networks delivers industry-leading Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) solutions for broadband network operators. Procera's PacketLogic solutions enable broadband operators of all types to capitalize on the latest consumer and application trends.As consumers continue to be more dependent on their broadband connections, the stress on the broadband networks will continue to grow. Operators that do not have the ability to perform detailed usage analysis and meet their customer’s expectations with new services will be at a competitive disadvantage. IPE systems that cannot scale to meet these requirements will become a CAPEX and OPEX drain on profitability, and limit profitability. The speed of business will be measured in weeks, not months; and policy enforcement systems will be expected to identify new service opportunities and launch the services in very short timeframes. Procera has created a policy enforcement ecosystem to enable the largest operators in the world to become more agile and to capitalize on the latest in broadband applications and trends with innovative service plans

Procera Networks Inc. delivers Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) solutions designed for carriers, service providers and high-end enterprises to enable proactive quality management, innovative service creation and delivery, detailed business analytics on network utilization and bandwidth consumption, and mitigate security threats. Procera's PacketLogic solutions deliver superior performance, scalability, and functionality to allow personalized services for millions of subscribers as part of the 3GPP Policy and Charging Control architecture.

Why We Do It 

Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) enables broadband network operators to provide unprecedented levels of personalization, service optimization, network assurance, and rapid creation of business models to monetize their infrastructure investments. IPE has evolved from simple uses like P2P traffic management, fair usage, and business intelligence to more sophisticated uses designed to increase operator profitability and service innovation. Some of these uses are:

  • Detailed Business Analytics on subscribers, devices, usage, applications, peering, and content
  • Service Creation and Enforcement for Tiered Service Plans
  • Intelligent Charging based on time, volume, applications, and content
  • Proactive Service Monitoring to ensure high Quality of Experience

How We Do It Better

Procera's IPE solutions enable broadband providers to support more subscribers and services on their network than other alternatives, because our solutions are the highest performing and most scalable policy enforcement systems available. However, our performance advantages are not limited to just Gbps, but extends to other critical ecosystem components like transactions per second for policy management interactions, statistics collected per packet and per second, and the number of policies that can be simultaneously enforced. Procera IPE solutions also support deeper levels of awareness and over twice as many applications as our competition, enabling richer services to be offered to consumers, and our signatures are updated faster than other vendors in order to keep up with the influx of network applications from the application storefronts (iTunes store, Android market, Amazon.com, etc) and the rapid pace of social networks.

First, enabling the Digital Lifestyle requires superior awareness to ensure that the right Quality of Experience is delivered to consumers based on their location, device, and application usage. Procera's solutions provide unparalleled visibility through our Datastream Recognition Definition Language (DRDL) traffic classification engine and the interaction with our PacketLogic Subscriber Manager (PSM), which delivers the industry's most comprehensive subscriber, location, and device awareness.

Second, Broadband providers trying to keep pace with the Digital Lifestyle require detailed analysis of trends in consumer behavior. Procera's PacketLogic Intelligence Center (PIC) with PacketLogic Report Studio ensures that Marketing and Finance departments understand what applications are most prevalent among your user base, where those applications are utilized most frequently, and how changes in service plans affect network congestion. PIC delivers succinct, digestible, and customizable reports that drive profitable services and efficient network management.

Finally, through Intelligent Policy Enforcement, Procera's solutions provide superior control options for broadband network operators for service creation and congestion management. Unlike competitive options that are one-size fits all, PacketLogic is designed for maximum implementation flexibility, and can be customized for each deployment to fit the business, financial, and regulatory needs of each network operator. Policy Enforcement today involves more processes and requires more CPU power than ever before, as each packet must go through a detailed pipeline to receive full IPE functionality.

Products and Solutions

Procera's Intelligent Policy Enforcement solutions are powered by our three main product lines:

The PacketLogic Subscriber Manager (PSM) integrates PacketLogic with network management and operation systems including AAA, OSS, BSS, provisioning and policy managers. This enables policy enforcement, per-user tracking, also known as user awareness, as well as knowledge of where in the network the user connects, i.e. location awareness. User awareness can be leveraged to create personalized offerings that attract new customers, minimize churn, and increase ARPU through value-add services. Location awareness makes it possible to resolve, or even avoid, congestion, enhancing the user-experience. It can also control roaming costs through automatic policy enforcement.

The PacketLogic Intelligence Center (PIC) with PacketLogic Report Studio provides the visualization of the application and subscriber intelligence gathered by deployed PacketLogic systems. Leveraging the subscriber and location awareness provided by the PSM and the application intelligence provided by the PRE, the PIC is able to present a wealth of information to the network operator based on the behavior of their network. The intelligence can be presented in a multi-dimensional format, with per user, application, location, and device views available for business intelligence and planning. The PIC gives network managers access to relevant network traffic intelligence that enables network optimization, creation of appealing services and protection against malicious behavior.

The PacketLogic Real-Time Enforcement platforms (PRE) utilize multiple hardware platforms that run the same operating software. Each of the platforms offer consistent feature richness enabled through the different PacketLogic software modules: LiveView, Filtering, Traffic Shaping, and Statistics. The PacketLogic hardware platforms offer a range of configurations from the entry-level 4 Mbps PL5600 through through 2 Gbps PL7720. The mid-range PL8720 is a 2RU unit with up to 10Gbps throughput. At the top of the line are the PL8820 - a 30Gbps appliance in a compact 2 RU form factors. Our ATCA chassis solutions include the PL10000 series with capacity up to 120Gbps and 10M subscribers per system and the PL20000 with capacity up to 320Gbps and 10M subscribers.