Combined Best-of-Breed Solutions Provide Unprecedented Network Intelligence for Service Providers
PARIS, France – BROADBAND WORLD FORUM – October 26, 2010– Procera® Networks Inc. (NYSE Amex: PKT), a developer of Evolved Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solutions providing traffic awareness, control and protection for complex networks, and BroadHop Inc., the leader in network intelligence for service providers, today announced they have successfully completed interoperability testing (IOT) of their best-of-breed flagship Deep Packet Inspection (DPI),Policy Management and PCRF solutions: PacketLogic™ and Quantum Network Suite. The integrated pure-play solutions will provide service providers with unprecedented network intelligence to address the scalability, performance, and service expectations of LTE deployments.
The interoperability, which was completed to meet the demands of Procera and BroadHop joint service provider customers, is based on the latest 3GPP® release 9 policy enforcement standards for mobile networks. The combined solution enables service providers to:
· Postpone expensive network upgrades by dynamically resolving network congestion.
· Meet the multimedia application delivery requirements of 4G/LTE networks.
· Understand and value traffic to create more differentiated and compelling services.
· Strengthen business models through innovative service creation.
· Offer dynamic and interactive personalized policies that give subscribers a much greater ability to control and adapt their communication experience.
“LTE networks are going to be subscriber and application oriented,” said Jon Lindén, vice president of marketing, Procera Networks. “Procera’s PacketLogic technology, which recognizes and prioritizes real-time services, coupled with BroadHop’s Quantum Network Suite, will enable operators to do service innovation that has immediate impact on top-line revenue and bottom-line profitability.”
“Today’s IOT announcement is a direct result of increasing demand from service providers for flexible, scalable, interoperable solutions that maximize the value of their subscriber data,” said Jim O’Brien, vice president of business development, BroadHop Inc. “We look forward to working with Procera to provide our global customers with the kind of actionable network intelligence that will enable them to realize greater subscriber loyalty and gain 10-fold efficiencies.”
BroadHop and Procera are both renowned for cutting edge technology and unmatched experience with mobile network deployments. The unique real-time capabilities of PacketLogic and Quantum Network Suite, and the dynamic adaptability of both systems, enable previously unseen pre-paid solutions, dynamic congestion control, and bill shock prevention.
Procera’s PacketLogic line of products leverages state of the art DPI technology to do network traffic and policy control. PacketLogic drives the policy process for the next generation mobile networks by enabling trend and behavioral analysis, traffic classification, and real-time counters, and providing input to the policy server, enforcing policies, output billing and charging data, and verifying that intended results are achieved. This makes PacketLogic the inline engine of the policy and charging control (PCC) eco system.
The first end-to-end open policy management platform, Quantum Network Suite, empowers service providers to take back control of their network and customer relationships by providing a network-aware mobile data services engine that detects and adjusts for mobile core congestion in real-time, maximizing session capacity and user quality of experience. Quantum Network Suite delivers an outstanding customer experience by creating policies that manage network resources, enable two-way communication between service providers and subscribers, and allow individual subscribers to personalize policies themselves.
About Procera Networks Inc.
Procera®Networks Inc. delivers Evolved DPI solutions that give service providers awareness, control and protection of their applications and networks. Its core product suite, the PacketLogic™line of platforms, leverages the company’s advanced identification engine, DRDL™ (Datastream Recognition Definition Language), to provide accurate identification of network traffic in real-time. PacketLogic is deployed at more than 600 broadband service providers, telcos, governments and higher education campuses worldwide. Founded in 2002, Procera (NYSE Amex: PKT) is based in Silicon Valley and has offices around the globe. More information is available atwww.proceranetworks.com.
About BroadHop
Deployed by more than 70 telecom service providers serving more than 300 million subscribers in 30 countries, BroadHop’s policy management solutions enable service providers to control network resources in real time, monetize new services and applications, and deliver personalized, identity-based services in wireless and wireline networks. BroadHop products enable service providers to deliver converged applications, content and services over multi-access networks, so they can quickly build new revenue streams, reduce operating expenses, and create competitive advantage in their markets. For more information on BroadHop and its products, visit www.broadhop.comor follow the company on http://twitter.com/broadhop.
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