LOS GATOS, CA , a developer of Evolved DPI solutions providing
the most accurate traffic awareness, control and protection for
complex networks, today announced that its industry leading
PacketLogic family of products have been deployed across three
campuses of higher education: Eastern Illinois University, Newham
College of Further Education (UK) and Australian Catholic
University. EIU is now able to optimize network performance and
manage bandwidth for more than 12,000 students, faculty and staff,
while Newham is gaining visibility into network application traffic
and control over non-academic use of network bandwidth to better
serve more than 20,000 students. Network managers at ACU National
are able to shape and prioritize IT services such as real-time IP
traffic for its 14,000 students and staff.
EIU, Newham and ACU National are the latest in a string of
universities that have selected Procera's advanced solution for
application and network management. Procera has a particularly
strong foothold in the APAC region, with 30+ universities, such as
Flinders, La Trobe, Victoria and Ballarat universities in
Australia, and Yonsei, Daegu and Seoul National universities in
Korea.
Like most higher education institutions, EIU faces network
performance issues due to dramatic increases in peer-to-peer (P2P),
gaming and other recreational uses of bandwidth, as well as
requirements for academic pursuits and to support business
applications. Although EIU was using a legacy DPI product, rapidly
changing network traffic patterns and usage led network managers to
look for a more advanced traffic management solution.
"We knew immediately after the evaluation unit was installed
that we had to have PacketLogic for our network," said Tim Lewis, a
network engineering manager at EIU. "We found out more information
about network usage in one minute than our old system could provide
in a full week. PacketLogic's speed, responsiveness and intuitive
user interface made it our hands-down choice for network traffic
and service management."
EIU's deployment allows network managers to prioritize critical
applications and limit bandwidth for recreational use during peak
hours. Network managers also utilize PacketLogic's granular insight
into network activity for forensics, allowing real-time
identification and isolation of malware.
"Colleges and universities contend with many of the same
pressures and demands for bandwidth that challenge commercial
service providers, but the young demographic of student users
typically leads to a much higher use of P2P and other
bandwidth-intensive applications," said Jon Lind�n, Procera's vice
president of product management. "PacketLogic gives network
managers the flexibility to allow recreational use without impeding
mission-critical applications, and provides the deep network
visibility needed to effectively and efficiently manage these
complex networks."
One of the largest further-education colleges in the United
Kingdom, Newham has two main campuses and a number of local centers
in and around the London borough of Newham. While most students use
the school's computer-based learning centers as resources for
academic purposes, network managers grew increasingly concerned
that recreational usage would quickly overwhelm bandwidth capacity
and degrade quality of service. In order to gain visibility into
network traffic and usage, the IT staff began investigating DPI
technology.
"After investigating several DPI solutions, we selected
PacketLogic based on its ability to identify and control key P2P
applications, including BitTorrent and BitTorrent-encrypted
clients. We were also impressed with how easy it was to install
PacketLogic, and the simplicity of the user interface to manage and
implement network rules," said Tony Jack, Newham's head of IT and
systems. "We were quickly able to see a significant amount of
recreational P2P traffic, which is against college policy, and shut
it down. PacketLogic has given us peace of mind and the ability to
control our network resources."
"Higher-education institutions face a delicate juggling act,
balancing academic freedom to explore diverse Internet resources
against the reality of bandwidth cost and quality of service," said
David Green, Procera's vice president of sales for the EMEA region.
"PacketLogic allows network managers to plan policies and instate
rules that assure fair usage of network bandwidth resources based
on time of day, application bandwidth requirements, traffic
characteristics and literally thousands of other variables."
ACU National had been using a competitive product and switched
to PacketLogic due to its superior system functionality, real-time
view into the network, ease of use and local support. ACU National,
Australia's only public Catholic university, connects its six
campuses via the Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet), a
subset of the Internet. As all inter-campus traffic traverses
AARNet, PacketLogic has been essential in enabling the university
to shape and prioritize IT services, including transactional and
real-time IP traffic such as VoIP.
"PacketLogic has empowered the university with the ability to
effectively manage and control Internet usage and the associated
Internet traffic costs," said Wil Daniels, ACU National's IT
infrastructure manager. "This has enabled us to deliver a valued
service to our end users that has consistently remained in budget
while managing compliance with current copyright legislation.
"While not specifically a firewall appliance, the device has
provided the university with facility to quickly obtain an overview
and profile of traffic patterns that has assisted it in identifying
unusual traffic behavior," he added. "This has been a useful early
warning system that supplements our other security tools."
About Procera Networks, Inc.
Procera Networks, Inc. delivers Evolved DPI solutions that give
service providers full 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(TM) (Datastream Recognition Definition Language), to
provide the most accurate identification of network traffic
available today in real-time. PacketLogic is deployed at more than
400 broadband service providers, telcos, governments and higher
education campuses worldwide. Founded in 2002, the Procera (AMEX:
PKT) is based in Silicon Valley and has offices around the globe.
More information is available at www.proceranetworks.com.
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