Category: Technology
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 [+]

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

      August 24th, 2011 by Cam Cullen; Category: Industry, Technology
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        Mobile operators are constantly asking Procera how we keep up with application signatures. The rapidly evolving mobile application landscape is making signature updates even more critical, as new applications are launched at what seems like a mile a minute. Our R&D team sometimes feels like the proverbial dog chasing its tail, as every week there are tons of new mobile applications launched in the App Stores for the major mobile operating systems.

        Mobile applications are the driving force in the new mobile data economy. Consumers do not have smartphones just for email anymore. Rather, they utilize them for social networking, video streaming, photo sharing and real-time search/navigation. A mobile operator looking to capitalize on the latest and greatest application craze wants to market its service to capitalize on these new “hip” applications. Early adopters in particular, present an opportunity for operators who take the lead on creatively marketing new services at zero cost or who offer reduced rates as part of a promotion.  A growing number of mobile operators are looking at how they can jump on this opportunity.  To do this successfully, they need to be quick off the mark with new applications. Read more [+]

        July 31st, 2011 by Cam Cullen; Category: Industry, Technology
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          Usage caps are coming. Like it or not, broadband providers, mobile or fixed, cannot continue to expand their networks and invest in doubling capacity every 12-18 months. With service plans ranging from $20-100 per month across fixed and mobile networks, the runaway train needs to be slowed at least enough to allow the network backhaul and core to catch up to access network advances from the last five years.

          From a consumer point of view, this feels like a very bad thing. Just as consumers are moving more and more data into the cloud as access to the cloud has dramatically increased, their ability to leverage that data is threatened by limits that many of them do not understand. What exactly is 5GB? What is 100GB? Many consumer devices like the iPod, refer to their capacity by the number of songs or movies that they can hold. However, there is no such guidance on how much bandwidth your email takes up or what usage will occur when you stream the latest Netflix video, or even access Spotify or iTunes Cloud from your phone/PC/iPad. And if you watch two movies on Netflix, how many Windows Updates or iTunes store downloads does that equal? Read more [+]

          June 10th, 2011 by Cam Cullen; Category: Industry, Technology
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            Procera participated with a number of our customers in the World IPv6 day, which occurred on 8 June 2011. World IPv6 Day was a global-scale test flight of IPv6 sponsored by the Internet Society. The primary goal of the event was to motivate organizations across the industry — Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies — to prepare their networks and associated IP services for IPv6 connectivity and to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 address space runs out. Many web companies and other industry players enabled IPv6 on their main websites for a 24 hour period (and many will maintain their IPv6 presence going forward.

            Procera has been monitoring IPv6 deployments for some of our customers for months, and have been watching the trends on IPv6 networks in anticipation of this event. There has been a steady (although low volume) amount of IPv6 traffic on most consumer broadband networks for quite a long time, namely driven by the ability of applications like uTorrent to utilize IPv6 over Teredo (if the OS supports IPv6) to improve the ability of the application to hide from detection and complicate tracking. Read more [+]