Procera was/is for sale!
Ouch …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-e1TJBzzQ From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 1:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Traffic Shaping Appliance One other thing, the specs on the Procera hardware (I assume it’s basically a rackmount server) require a datacenter or at least controlled environment, the temperature range is pretty narrow. Even some towers where we have shelter space, I can’t guarantee the temperature specs they want. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Traffic Shaping Appliance Procera isn’t licensed per user .. it’s licensed based on throughput and features On Nov 23, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]> wrote: OK, I think Procera and Sandvine both have a per user cost (maybe a couple dollars per user) and Procera has a cost for purchasing upfront. My box which can do a gig of traffic cost $18,000 with the first year of signature updates and it is like $2500 annually after that. On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Wireless Administrator <[email protected]> wrote: Kurt, We use PPPoE/Radius to set basic Queues on the Access Servers but want to do shaping at an application level. Ntop reports are showing an increasing number of things getting out of control. Windows updates %#@?! for one. Steve From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Fankhauser Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 1:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Traffic Shaping Appliance Are you are just looking to shape general traffic to a client (like give someone a 1.5Mbps plan) then you could use Mikrotik and simple queues which is very in-expensive. If you want to do some shaping on an application like only streaming or Windows Updates and stuff like that then that's where things start to get expensive. I am using the Procera myself for that and although I havn't tried any of the other brands you mention I am very happy with the Procera. On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Wireless Administrator <[email protected]> wrote: We’re in the market for a traffic shaping appliance and have had a look at Procera so far. I have a list of vendors/products a have assembled over time that I was going to look into: Saisei NetEqualizer Packeteer (Bluecoat) NetEnforcer (Allot) Network Composer (Cymphonix) Exinda Anyone care to share experiences on this subject? Steve B.
