Procera’s PacketLogic Helps Service Providers Rein in Recreational Peer-to-Peer Traffic in the Workplace
Procera(R) Networks, Inc. (OTCBB: PRNW), a pioneering developer of carrier-grade network traffic and service management infrastructure equipment, today announced that the PacketLogic(TM) platform is allowing service providers such as Texas-based Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative, Inc. to combat increasing levels of non-business-critical peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic in their business customers’ networks, thereby maintaining service levels and allowing vital business traffic to continue unimpeded.
P2P in the workplace has become one of the leading causes of network slowdowns for business customers worldwide, and has heavily impacted network performance for higher-education institutions and enterprises as well. In P2P networking, applications such as BitTorrent, eDonkey and Joost utilize the bandwidth and computing power of participants to serve documents, movies, sound files, voice and other media to others in the P2P network.
PacketLogic accurately identifies more than 300 applications, including P2P applications that use encryption, port-hopping and other strategies to avoid detection. Using PacketLogic, Santa Rosa Telephone was quickly able to determine that a business customer’s “slow” network connection stemmed from an employee’s P2P use. In just minutes, Santa Rosa technicians configured a PacketLogic rule for the business customer, throttling back P2P usage in their network during business hours.
“While we are just beginning to see larger amounts of P2P traffic across our network, the widespread popularity and news coverage of these services will only accelerate usage,” said Kirk Petty, general manager of Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative. “The area we serve is mostly rural, and bandwidth is quite expensive. Through PacketLogic we are able to help our business customers ensure appropriate use of their networks, and assure all of our customers — both business and consumer — of high-quality Internet service.”
“Industry experts estimate P2P as 60% of worldwide Internet traffic; however, we have seen networks with P2P usage at 70% or more of total bandwidth, with a vast majority being recreational usage,” said Albert Lopez, vice president of worldwide marketing for Procera Networks. “As this tide continues, it will have an ever-increasing impact on bandwidth usage and availability for service providers, higher-education institutions and enterprises. Through PacketLogic, network managers can maintain quality-of-service levels for their subscribers and allow appropriate usage of P2P.”
Petty is a repeat customer of Procera Networks; as general manager of neighboring telco Alenco/Pathway Com-Tel, he chose PacketLogic for network traffic and service management as well as compliance with the technical assistance requirements of CALEA, the U.S. lawful intercept regulation. At Santa Rosa Telephone, PacketLogic provides monitoring, traffic shaping and management of the network, as well as CALEA compliance in conjunction with Trusted Third Party provider and Procera partner West Central Support.
The PacketLogic product family includes the PL5600, PL7600, PL7620 and PL9200 models, which range from 4 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps bidirectional throughput capacity. The modular software design includes Surveillance (standard in all PacketLogic systems) and options for Filtering, Traffic Shaping, and Statistics.
About Procera Networks
Founded in 2002, Procera Networks, Inc. (OTCBB: PRNW) is a global provider of intelligent network traffic identification, control and service management infrastructure equipment. Procera’s core product suite, the PacketLogic(TM) line of appliances, provides the most accurate application identification available today by using the industry leading connection identification engine DRDL(TM) (Datastream Recognition Definition Language). PacketLogic is deployed at more than 350 broadband service providers (xSPs), Telcos, colleges and universities worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.proceranetworks.com.
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