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Procera Accelerates Growth in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500

October 19th, 2011 by James Brear; Category: Industry

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 [+]

FCC Net Neutrality Legislation Impact on Procera

December 21st, 2010 by James Brear; Category: Industry, Products, Technology

Today, the FCC passed a ruling that creates a Network Neutrality framework and provides guidance on “acceptable” practices for broadband service providers. There are several key tenets that we take away from the ruling, which have very positive implications for Procera.

1) Application blocking is prohibited for lawful applications and content – because providers already follow this standard in the US, this is not a big change. This does, however, imply that there is an opportunity for service providers to block unlawful applications or content in the future (child pornography for example), either by default or as an opt-in service.

2) Transparency is a must – to achieve transparency providers must disclose their network management procedures. This has become a common practice since the beginning of the Network Neutrality debate and will not be a big change for major providers. Read more [+]

Does Network Neutrality impact DPI?

May 7th, 2010 by James Brear; Category: Industry, Technology

FCC Chairman Genachowski’s recent letter has instigated a lot of talk about Net Neutrality, some of it apocalyptical (“The end of the Internet is here!”), some of it reasonable (“Nothing has changed, business as usual”). Both sides of the discussion have valid points to their arguments, but what really is the impact?

Without going into details (I will leave that to the experts), the FCC has reset the status quo to what it was before the Comcast court decision. As Genachowski himself states in the document “…this approach would restore the status quo”, resetting the ability of the FCC to manage broadband as they have in the past, preserving the FCC’s mission.

This is not “the nuclear option” that had been proposed by some, which would have made every aspect of broadband service open to regulation and restriction, and it is also not a capitulation to the Comcast ruling which would essentially make the FCC powerless against ISPs. Instead, as Genachowski himself headlined in his letter, this was a third way to look at the problem. Under this framework, the FCC would ensure that open access to networks is maintained, and focuses on the connections to the network, and not the content or services that run on that transport. Read more [+]