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Radical Simplicity: Moving Mountains for Personalized Services

January 16th, 2012 by Cam Cullen; Category: Industry, Products

Steve Jobs once said, “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

There are three pillars to Intelligent Policy Enforcement: Awareness, Analysis, and Control. Solutions that lack any of these capabilities will limit the ability of an operator to deliver personalized services to their customers. The more they lack, the more limitations that will be imposed on the operator – whether those limits are scalability, performance, granularity, or even operational in nature.

Let’s be upfront about something: Personalized services are HARD. Read more [+]

SCTE 2011: “Wow this stuff is Powerful”

November 17th, 2011 by John DeLangie; Category: Industry, Products, Technology

As I get ready to leave SCTE 2011 in Atlanta, I am struck by the diverse collection of vendors ranging from custom tools, outside plant equipment companies and RF video enablement to IP video, high-speed IP transport vendors and Intelligent Policy Enforcement all focused on providing products and services to the Cable industry.

This years SCTE Expo Technology Spotlight “is focused on next generation video architecture and associated technologies that will be required and the challenges of adapting content from increasingly more diverse sources to increasingly more diverse devices, many of which are untethered.” Sound familiar? As the explosive demand for online content and the mobile device adoption continues at a record pace the need for high performance and scalable Intelligent Policy Enforcement solutions that provide accurate business analytics continues to expand. Read more [+]

PacketLogic Report Studio: Information is Cheap, Lack of Knowledge is Expensive

November 14th, 2011 by Cam Cullen; Category: Products, Technology

I was reading an interview with George Dyson, and during the interview, he made a comment that really caught my attention. He was speaking of the volumes of data that many people have to deal with, and his comment was “Information is cheap, meaning is expensive”. The comment resonated for me, as it encapsulated the headline of a new product from Procera called PacketLogic^TM Report Studio.

Two of the biggest challenges that network operators face is 1) information overload, and 2) lack of relevant information. There are plenty of Internet trends reports that can tell you what is happening on networks around the world, but NONE of them tell you what is really happening on your network. Most Intelligent Policy Enforcement solutions can generate many canned reports, and even place them on pretty web pages, but they are all statically configured templates and reports. Most network operators can tell you down to the byte how much traffic is on their network, but that information does not allow you to plan new service offerings. It can also mislead you into thinking that you need to add more capacity to your network, but it may be that the excess bandwidth is being taken up by applications that you should not spend money to enable. Read more [+]

Another Great Year at the Educuase Conference!

October 21st, 2011 by Trevor Failor; Category: Industry, Products

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 [+]

Time To Celebrate!

September 23rd, 2011 by Jon Linden; Category: Products, Technology

10 years!?! I won’t say it feels like yesterday, because a lot of hard work has gone into it, but it doesn’t feel like it’s been 10 years since we launched the very first edition of PacketLogic. I suppose that means we’ve had a lot of fun on the way.

The not so glamorous introduction took place at the NetworksTelecom trade show in Stockholm, September 24, 2001, in a 10×10 booth with a projector and a bowl of candy. I think few, besides us staffing the booth, thought they were looking at what was to become the world’s leading intelligent policy enforcer that several Tier-1 operators rely on for creating and delivering better broadband services to their customers. Read more [+]