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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 4, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 31

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Breaking News - Networking:

Procera Files 39 Layer 7 Application Switching Patent Claims

Procera Networks announced that it has filed 39 patent claims for 22 countries related to managing and controlling Layer 7 applications with network switches.

These patent claims cover unique technologies and feature areas such as Expert Policies, Time-Triggered Actions, Wired QoS, Wireless QoS, Flow Metering, Network Lockdown, URLock, Network Security and Surveillance.

Procera CEO Doug Glader commented, "We filed these patent claims to protect our industry-leading intellectual property incorporated in our Layer 7 application switch products. Only Procera offers a multi-port network switch that can provide switching, routing, Layer 7 content control, QoS, rate limiting and selective surveillance at wire-speed on a single platform. We offer price/performance that is unmatched in the industry."

Procera VP of Engineering Mick Hansen states, "We have worked very hard over the past two years to develop a network switch that supports deep packet inspection on all ports at wire-speed. We are able to inspect up to the first 80 bytes of every packet. This allows us to define up to 100 concurrent Layer 7 application based polices. We developed proprietary software APIs to take advantage of the maximum number of features and highest performance possible on our hardware platform."

Procera is completing the conversion of these provisional patents to utility applications for both US and foreign rights. Procera's MLS Layer 7 Application Switches are available now in production.

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