Archive: Monthly Archives: February 2012
February 26th, 2012 by Cam Cullen; Category: Industry, Technology
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    As the old networking adage goes, “The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from”. However, when it comes to personalized services for mobile operators, there are just a few standards that are important with the 3GPP framework. Procera is a big believer in the 3GPP standards for Policy Management and Enforcement, as they simplify our task in mobile networks, not to mention simplify service implementations.

    The more standards-based a solution is, the easier it is for an operator to design and launch new services. Proprietary solutions are usually designed to “lock-in” a customer to a specific vendor, and can often dramatically slow the pace of business, as all new service rollouts require dedicated work from the supplier to enable the new services. Vendors that deviate place more risk onto the network deployment, and can lead to a great deal of frustration for customers and engineering teams. Read more [+]

    February 14th, 2012 by Cam Cullen; Category: Industry, Products, Technology
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      Traditional IPE deployments have been focused on delivering high-quality services (monitoring, enforcement, and charging) for broadband subscribers. However, a movement is afoot in the industry to move everything into the cloud, and this will have profound implications on how networks are built and managed. Let’s look at the problem from four different angles:

      • Consumer: As a consumer, if I put data in the cloud to enable me to access it from multiple devices, I want to be able to access the data with some level of quality. The more important it is to me, the more likely I am to want to ensure that I have access. Read more [+]

      February 8th, 2012 by Cam Cullen; Category: Uncategorized
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        I was a bit disappointed in the Super Bowl streaming last night, and from some preliminary results from our customers, it looks as if many others were as well. A sampling of customers looked at low participation: A DSL operator had less than .5% of their subscribers watching, and multiple MSOs had almost 2% participation – which is lower than I expected for the event. Not a big surprise, but Facebook and Twitter were also very active during the game time (although Twitter has reported that most of the activity was about the commercials and the halftime show and not the game!). There was a noticeable dip of about 33% in other forms of streaming video during the game (Netflix, YouTube, etc), as people stopped watching streaming movies and watched the game (although at Halftime YouTube spiked up). Other types of vide streaming picked up during the game, but dropped back to kickoff levels at the end of the game as even marginally interested parties checked in to see the exciting conclusion to the game.  There was no real impact in Canada, and some spotty watching from around the world, but clearly this event was US-centric. Read more [+]