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The demand for bandwidth in universities is at an all time high right now. Procera Networks (News - Alert), Inc’s Smart Campus suite helps enhance networks that are spread across 300 higher education institutions internationally. Some of these include places like West Virginia University, and the University of California Davis. Also on the list are Northern Arizona University, University of Montana and Manchester University. You will also find the names of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology as well as the Sun Yat-Sen and Pusan National Universities.

St. Martin's University, a Catholic Benedictine university has been able to shape its network traffic quite well with Procera's PL7720 PacketLogic solution. They are based in Lacey, Wash. In a release, Jordan Boland, network administrator at St. Martin's, said, "Procera has enabled us to align our technology with our school's mission of empowering students to pursue learning. Procera constantly updates its list of signatures and applications, which enables us to accurately identify the sources of our bandwidth issues, including ones that use port-hopping, encryption, masking or other behaviors to hide their identity. Notably, Procera's support is the best of any vendor we've worked with; their unmatched responsiveness provides us with the peace of mind, knowing that they'll be there for any question we have."

Procera's Smart Campus suite has provisions for traffic classification, its management, statistics as well as analytics and end-user provisioning. These are features when combined give full visibility as well as control over campus based networks. With costing done based on the requirements of the Higher Education institutions, Smart Campus brings together Procera's inline PacketLogic devices i.e., PL8820, PL8720 and PL7720. This is done along with the PacketLogic Intelligence Center as well as the educational edition, PSM-E, of PacketLogic Subscriber Manager.

Technology solutions for Higher Education providers Vega Business Technologies help universities in implementing Procera's Smart Campus suite. Steve DeNato, President of Vega Business Technologies, said, "In our three-year history of working with the PacketLogic product line, we've found it to be the network intelligence solution best suited to the Higher Education market. Our university customers love the PacketLogic platform's flexibility and extensibility. Only Procera can integrate with NAC vendors. Plus, its advanced intelligence allows institutions to manage high-consumption users and provide innovative mechanisms for preventing and reconciling DMCA/HEOA violations. By lowering bandwidth costs and IT overhead, PacketLogic often pays for itself."