Vendor Review: Procera Partnership with F5

    

Procera Networks is announcing today (here) that it is joining F5's Technology Alliance Program/Service Provider Alliance (here, and see "F5 Creates the "Service Delivery Networking" Market Category" - here) with a joint marketing agreement.

Jon Linen, Procera's VP of Global Marketing explained that Procera's DPI capabilities will be used as a front-end to F5 steering functions, so F5 will be able to make smarter decisions and forward only relevant traffic to other devices, such as video optimization and caching (F5 already partners with video optimization vendors - Bytemobile, Flash Networks and Vantrix - see chart below).

Jon also told me that while Procera's competitors - Allot and Sandvine - have built-in traffic steering, Procera decided to approach F5 install base, and offer an attractive solution to customers that are implementing F5 steering with video optimization. Initially, all devices will be connected sequentially, but Jon says that they are open to go to the next step of an embedded solution. Procera and F5 created a control protocol with which Procera reports to the F5 device about the identified application.

During MWC, the joint solution will be demonstrated in F5 booth.



Source: F5 White Paper - Service Delivery Networking



Juniper Announces MobileNext - "Open mobile core for 2G/3G and LTE networks"; Partners with Bridgewater, Openwave

  

Juniper Networks announced "MobileNext, the industry's first open mobile core for 2G/3G and LTE networks .. MobileNext is a suite of software that runs on Juniper Networks industry leading MX 3D Universal Edge Router and Junos® software platform. MobileNext delivers on the "Project Falcon" initiative with breakthrough products, solutions and business models that address the needs of mobile operators today"

See "Juniper Networks Delivers MobileNext — Industry's First Open Mobile Core for Service Innovation" - here. See also a white paper from ABI Research - "Juniper MobileNext: Bending the Mobile Cost Curve" - here (see chart below for the summary of findings).

"MobileNext, with industry leading scalability of mobile sessions, set up rates and forwarding capacity, enables high-definition voice and video delivery with seamless handoff between 3G and LTE for non-interrupted user experience while integrating a rich portfolio of in-line IP services. These in-line services, including Deep Packet Inspection, Traffic Direct for Internet offload, Carrier Grade NAT, Firewall, Video Optimization, MPLS, and Application Load Balancing, provide deployment flexibility and dramatically reduce TCO to mobile operators".

The following vendors announced a partnership with Juniper:

• Bridgewater Systems announced that "Juniper Networks will resell Bridgewater's complete control plane portfolio globally, as an integral component of Juniper's MobileNext, the industry's first open mobile core for 2G/3G and LTE networks".  See "Juniper Networks and Bridgewater to Partner on End-to-End Mobile Packet Core Solution" - here. 
   
• Openwave Systems announced that "Juniper Networks has selected the Company as a strategic partner to integrate its Media Optimizer into Juniper’s Media Flow solution for mobile video optimization. The combined solution is expected to dramatically improve the economics of delivering video over mobile networks while revolutionizing the user viewing experience". See "Juniper Networks Partners with Openwave to Redefine Mobile Video Delivery and Revoltionize User Viewing Experience" - here.