Procera enables cloud service providers to implement subscriber-, device-, and application-aware traffic steering using market-proven intelligent policy enforcement solutions.

Cloud-based Advanced Traffic Steering

To meet subscriber needs and differentiate their offerings, cloud service providers are continually developing innovative, value-added services (VAS) with ever-expanding functionality and scale. To avoid overwhelming application servers, decreasing network reliability, or increasing network latency, network operators need to direct this service-related traffic in a more selective and intelligent way.

How can cloud service providers use traffic steering to better manage bandwidth and application performance? They need solutions that enable them to:

• Direct application services traffic intelligently, based on individual subscriber and application needs, in real time
• Optimize application and network performance, without large additional infrastructure investments
• Surgically redirect VAS traffic to minimize CAPEX expenditures

The Procera Solution

Procera enables cloud service providers to implement subscriber- and application-aware traffic steering with real-time Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) solutions that provide three key use cases:

• Awareness of both individual subscribers and applications. Our IPE solution provides granular awareness of subscriber and application attributes, enabling highly selective traffic steering in real time. Traffic steering policies can be based on subscriber ID, service plan, application type, peering partner, and more.
• Surgical Steering, of cloud service traffic, according to predefined policies. When application traffic matches a traffic steering policy (or a chain of service policies), Procera’s IPE solution ensures traffic is diverted to the appropriate service appliance. Service chains can support multiple services, allowing creation of more sophisticated services that require multiple traffic steering decisions.
• Flexibility, to interoperate easily with any value-added service solution. Our IPE solution can steer traffic at any point in the connection—at the start of the flow, after the application is identified, or even if the flow changes mid-stream—and supports mirroring, Layer 2 or 3 divert, or http redirection for steering.

Learn more about our PacketLogic Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) solutions.