Procera Networks

IT managers for universities, colleges and other educational institutions operate complex networks designed to serve diverse user groups – students, faculty, staff, and often the surrounding community. These network resources typically support multiple applications and uses, from academic research to campus VoIP, mission-critical business applications and grid computing, for example. The proliferation of Peer-to-Peer (P2P), video, multi-player gaming and other bandwidth-intensive applications, however, has heavily impacted most higher-education organizations – for example, P2P often exceeds 70% of total network traffic for these networks.

In addition to these challenges, higher-education IT managers face multiple network requirements, among them maintaining a high quality of service (QoS) for users and business-critical applications, preserving academic freedom to research and learn, and holding the line on bandwidth costs. Procera Networks’ PacketLogic solutions are used by hundreds of colleges, universities and other organizations worldwide to meet these goals through patent-pending next-generation technology that provides deep visibility into and control over network traffic.

PacketLogic solutions provide deep packet inspection capabilities that allow highly accurate identification of network traffic such as BitTorrent, YouTube, Skype and others – even if these applications use port-hopping, encryption, masking or other behaviors to hide their identity. PacketLogic provides precision visibility into network traffic, allowing accurate management and optimization of bandwidth. Rules-based management and traffic shaping allows allocation of bandwidth by application (such as VoIP), department, time-of-day, volume, or per user.

Read more about PacketLogic in higher-education institutions in our case studies and white papers at right.

Key PacketLogic Features for Higher-Education Institutions:

• Forensic capabilities to protect your network from malicious traffic like virus storms and cracker attacks
• Deploy fairness to secure expected resources to all users
• Accurate and reliable intelligence on what your user do online - available in real-time
• Optimize the utilization of expensive network resources and Internet capacity
• Non-disruptive queue-based shaping and prioritization technology that secures quality for sensitive applications
• Seamless and easy installation that requires no network modifications
• Carrier-grade performance and capacity