Procera Takes DPI to the Next Level

Procera Networks (News - Alert) is focused on providing network operators visibility into what’s happening on their networks. As more applications and subscribers move onto networks, there is, of course, a greater need for higher performance solutions. This week at Mobile World Congress (News - Alert) Procera announced the implementation of DPI-based Vineyard NAVL running on a 1RU 200-gigabit Tilera CPU. This a reference platform for a very high performance solution in a small footprint that an equipment company such as a vendor of Ethernet switches, firewalls or routers could get from Procera and Tilera using a single purchase order.

Vineyard recently was acquired by Procera. A leader in enterprise OEM DPI, Vineyard is Procera’s main point of entry into the enterprise, according to Cam Cullen, vice president of global marketing.

Cullen adds that Procera continues to add capabilities to its policy enforcement boxes, which it sells direct to service providers. In January, the company announced ContentLogic, which can recognize any category of content – like shopping, video or porn sites, so service providers can for example offer parental control (or the ability to block any sites) as a value-added services.

Additionally, ContentLogic can correlate the categories of content consumed by broadband subscribers for up to 100 million URLs with minimal performance impact to any of the PacketLogic Real-Time Enforcement systems, according to Procera. That means that one PL20000 system can do policy enforcement and replace several racks of content categorization or filtering solutions, according to the company.

“From the service provider perspective, Procera is delivering the final piece of the puzzle in understanding and responding to what is happening on their networks,” said Jim Brear, president and CEO for Procera Networks. “In adding content categorization intelligence to location, subscriber and application intelligence, operators now have even greater control in delivering the highest quality of experience to consumers. This adds the dimension of content to our understanding of user context which is truly differentiating.”