Headquarters California, United States Type of business Privately held company | Founded 2002 | |
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Industry Networking Hardware and Software Key people Lyndon Cantor (President and CEO)Richard Deggs, CFOAlexander Haväng, Founder, Chief Technology OfficerCam Cullen, VP of Global Marketing Website www.proceranetworks.com Subsidiaries Procera Networks PTE. LTD., Netintact PTY LTD, Procera Networks G.K. Profiles | ||
Virtualization powered by procera networks
Procera Networks is a networking equipment company based in Fremont, California, United States, that designs and sells deep packet inspection (DPI), policy and charging rules function, data analytics and reporting hardware, software and services.
Contents
- Virtualization powered by procera networks
- Computer networking jobs and more available at procera networks
- History
- Technology
- Controversy
- References
Computer networking jobs and more available at procera networks
History
Procera was incorporated in 2002 in California. The company was initially created to deliver intelligent Ethernet network switches. The company changed its product line when it merged with Netintact, a company based in Varberg, Sweden, that offered bandwidth management products to Scandinavian network operators under the PacketLogic brand. The merger was announced in May and closed in June 2006. Procera shifted the company product strategy to the Netintact product lines.
From 2006 to 2008, Procera sold inexpensive (less than 2 Gbit/s) traffic management products to small operators and enterprises, to operators like Com Hem in Sweden. In September 2007, Procera Networks became listed on the American Stock Exchange with stock symbol PKT.
Beginning in 2008, Procera began focusing on larger carriers and mobile operators. Several customers reported they use Procera's technology, such as Yoigo and Genband, which resells Procera products as its P-Series products.
Procera was named one of the fastest growing network companies by Deloitte for 2010 and 2011 as part of its Deloitte Fast 500 study. On June 24, 2011, Procera Networks joined the Russell 3000 Index. In December 2011, Procera moved to the NASDAQ stock exchange using the symbol PKT.
In 2013, Procera bought Vineyard Networks, a Canadian DPI company for C$28 million.
Technology
Procera offers policy enforcement technology based on their version of deep packet inspection (DPI) called the Datastream Recognition Definition Language (DRDL). DRDL uses properties of applications for identification purposes, and this allows operators to manage subscriber traffic based on the application, similar to many DPI products.
Controversy
In October 2016 it was alleged that Procera had sold its DPI software to the government of Turkey via the telecoms company Turk Telecom in order to reveal the usernames and passwords of people visiting unencrypted websites. According to Forbes, there was significant internal opposition from technologists working for Procera to the sale. Current and former employees are said to have told Forbes that 'Turk Telekom requested not just a feed of subscribers’ usernames and passwords for unencrypted websites, but also their IP addresses, what sites they’d visited and when.'