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Procera Networks, the global Internet Intelligence company, announced the launch of Virtualized PacketLogicTM solutions based on the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) standards. The new NFV based deep packet inspection solution is expected to reduce the cost of acquisition and ownership of internet intelligence systems for communication service providers (CSP)s. The solution, which comprises PSM, PRE and PIC modules can be deployed on a standard virtualization software, offering same software functionality as the current hardware platforms used by hundreds of network operators worldwide. The virtualized solution enables rapid deployment and timely capacity upgrades for CSPs.
"The main promise of NFV is to benefit from commodity pricing of IT hardware, reduced power consumption and moving to a much faster service delivery method based on downloading software appliances as opposed to installing new hardware appliances," said Paul Veitch, chief network strategist at British Telecom.
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“Virtualization is a natural evolution of the PacketLogic architecture,” said Alexander Havang, chief technology officer for Procera. “Procera has always maintained hardware independence, and has delivered the highest performing solutions available on the market using off-the-shelf hardware technology. We have used virtualization extensively internally, and our customers are asking to deploy this in their networks today. Speed to market with new services and the ability to deliver targeted niche services also becomes a much simpler and more rapid process.”
“We’ve been noting a definite interest among operators toward virtualizing their policy decision and enforcement functions as a way to reduce costs and bring services to market more quickly,” said Shira Levine, Directing Analyst, Service Enablement and Subscriber Intelligence at Infonetics Research. “We believe that this trend will accelerate as Software Defined Networking (SDN) begins to gain traction, driving demand for DPI technology that can mine intelligence from the network and feed it up to the control layer.”
