The Bloomsburg University Office of Technology is looking to purchase a Procera (PL-09051-AC) Shaper, that will monitor and route web traffic including software and licenses. The proposed equipment will integrate with our currently deployed Procera PL-8840 ecosystem, therby leveraging the existing technology. The proposed system contains unique features and functionality that work with our existing system. These features include, the ability to provide over 2,000 signatures for application identification, the ability to obtain weekly signature updates for accurate application identification. The new system must allow for licensing expansion for BGP route perspective, IPFIX Streaming Export and LSD (Line Sharing Detection). The technology must be capable of measuring sub-second throughput continuously and also be capable of measuring latency and packet loss in 5 second intervals per subscriber. The DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) (what is this?) platform analyzes the traffic traversing the internet and helps ensure all subscribers get an equal amount of bandwidth. The DPI platform must have the capability to identify asymmetric traffic within the Bloomsburg University network and be able to synchronize the asymmetric connections across all DPI systems. The platform must support synchronizing asymmetric traffic for flow identification and queue state with a minimum of 15 clustered systems. The platform must display statistical results from within the monitoring software GUI. The DPI system must able to support both 1GE and 10GE interfaces within the same appliance. The DPI system must support traffic shaping on a per subscriber basis. A subscriber is mapped by IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix. The shaping must support time based controls, volume controls and support Host Fairness (bandwidth equally divided amount active subscribers). The shaper must enable strict prioritization and weighted fair queuing. The system must support bandwidth borrowing or bursting of bandwidth where unused bandwidth can be assigned to subscriber’s pools. The system must be capable of shunting traffic, and the ability to provide advanced content filtering and URL filtering supporting a minimum of 100 million URL’s. The system must be able to support the ability to accept, reject, or deny traffic based on any combination of Layer 3-7 criteria (i.e. URL’s, content types, etc.) The software utilized must include content filtering, CGNAT, Advance Traffic Steering and Header Enrichment. The solution must have a real-time (5 second updates or less) monitoring tool via a GUI form to provide visibility in the network, subscriber and network interface awareness and to assist in the troubleshooting of subscriber network issues. The proposed equipment is the only currently known to be available which meets these stringent requirements. Equipment Cost: $120,235 Product Support: $26,066 Total: $146,301

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