Archive: Monthly Archives: October 2011
October 21st, 2011 by Trevor Failor; Category: Industry, Products
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    The Procera booth was humming with activity as video streaming, device proliferation, and VoD are driving schools to seek more scalable and intelligent tools for managing the increasing bandwidth demands from students and faculty.

    My days were booked with customer meetings and it quickly became apparent that our Smart Campus suite’s unique capability to integrate with NAC devices such as Impulse Point, Cisco Clean Access, and Bradford Networks was one of the key points that everyone was impressed with.

    There was a very positive buzz at the show and when all is said and done, I keep coming back to four key areas that customers were very interested in:

    Device-aggregated Consumption Quotas ­- innovative schools such as University of Dayton are using Procera’s Smart Campus feature to roll up bandwidth consumption over multiple devices associated with a single student and apply a rolling time-based quota that dynamically moves abusers into a “penalty box” where they experience reduced bandwidth. Read more [+]

    October 19th, 2011 by James Brear; Category: Industry
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      I am proud to have Procera’s growth acknowledged for the second year in a row, by Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 as one of the top growth networking companies in North America. It is always good to have your success acknowledged, and Procera grew 962 percent during the 2011 survey period. I attribute our phenomenal growth to two main factors.

      The first is the people that work at Procera.  This team is the best that I have ever worked with in my career, and they are dedicated to our customers like no other team that I have had the honor to work with. The engineering team is always innovating with our products, both at making our system work better as well as creating new products and technologies that have been extremely well received by the market. Our field teams are competing against companies that are bigger than Procera, and still managing to win large Tier 1 deployments, and even more telling, receiving follow-on orders that deepen the strategic relationship we have with our customers. Read more [+]

      October 6th, 2011 by Cam Cullen; Category: Industry, Technology
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        The tech industry suffered a great loss yesterday with the passing of Steve Jobs. There have been many articles written on the topic, all of which do a much better job than I can, but his contribution to the technology industry cannot be underestimated. He changed the game in so many industries, and the current boom in mobile devices and tablets can be credited to the work he led at Apple.

        It is a fitting tribute that over the past 24 hours, a survey that Procera did on one of our North America broadband customers revealed that approximately 1% of the overall traffic on these networks were to URLs with “Steve Jobs” in the title. Although this is not a comprehensive capture of all Steve Jobs traffic (as it only captures URLs with Steve Jobs in the title), it is still a testament to the man and his influence in US culture today. Read more [+]

        October 4th, 2011 by Cam Cullen; Category: Industry, Technology
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          What is the first thing you look out for when you wake up in the morning? Yes, it’s your smartphone or your tablet!!! I do too. To check Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ updates, any new photos or videos tagged on Facebook, and of course email (not necessarily in that order).  It’s a way of life to be connected 24×7 in real time checking stock quotes, sports scores, playing angry birds online or even who won the Oscars or who walked with whom on the red carpet when you are on the road or getting bored in a meeting.  All made possible because of your smart devices. Well all that is passé, with real time video streaming, you can even catch up on your favorite TV shows, movies, real time world events and news streaming whichever part of the world you are in.

          Social media networking has fired up Internet traffic as well as viewership of content that, and that has already had a significant impact on Internet growth. Read more [+]