Shawn is the Director of Product Management and Marketing for Procera’s Embedded DPI engine. He is a veteran of the network communications business with nearly 30 years of experience in a variety of capacities in development, sales and marketing. Shawn is also a regular contributor to Cyber Defense Magazine. Areas of expertise: Embedded Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
By Shawn Sweeney, Director of Product Management and Marketing June 30, 2014
It seems like yesterday that the first “stateful” firewall was bought to market. In fact, it was over two decades ago that the first real commercially available product came to market. This innovation unleashed a renewed look at the firewall problem. And thus came the crush of me-toos and look-alikes for some number of years. Each one trumpeted with more...
Topics: Deep packet inspection, Firewalls, Unified threat management, Expert insights, Utm
By Shawn Sweeney, Director of Product Management and Marketing May 27, 2014
Much discussion has occurred around Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and the proper deployment models for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in the emerging virtualized landscape. To listen to some, this has taken on all the mystery of a Hollywood thriller complete with twists and turns, car chases and dark alleys, all adding to the confusion with this...
Topics: Expert insights
By Shawn Sweeney, Director of Product Management and Marketing May 2, 2014
Not so long ago, some clever folks realized that there was a significant market opportunity in the collection, correlation and analysis of network events—especially as it related to security appliances and the valuable information they provided. And thus a group of companies sprung up around a category of products that addressed the pain point of making...
Topics: Expert insights
By Shawn Sweeney, Director of Product Management and Marketing April 2, 2014
In today’s competitive networking equipment and software market, one certainty is that more technology will fit in a composed platform and be sold for less money.
Topics: Deep packet inspection, Cyber defence magazine, Application identification, Expert insights, Secure web gateways
By Shawn Sweeney, Director of Product Management and Marketing March 27, 2014
It was our privilege to be represented in one of the kickoff sessions for the CCA show in San Antonio this past Thursday. The competitive carriers are any carrier who is not Verizon or ATT (as defined by the number of subscribers).
Topics: What were up to
By Shawn Sweeney, Director of Product Management and Marketing March 5, 2014
It was great experience for Procera Networks to participate in the RSA Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this past week. We had the opportunity to meet with dozens of companies, new and old, inquiring about our technology. Procera's demonstrations of Network Application Visibility Library (NAVL) in high-performance applications drew great...
Topics: What were up to
By Shawn Sweeney, Director of Product Management and Marketing January 28, 2014
Back in the day, the big network security vendors were extremely focused on blocking traffic based on port numbers when a new emerging set of protocols came to the fore. These protocols used a complicated set of misdirection and evasion techniques that kept security experts hopping. Every day, there was a new protocol or variant that broke all the previous...
Topics: Expert insights
By Shawn Sweeney, Director of Product Management and Marketing November 26, 2013
It was great to meet so many customers and prospects at the LTE North America 2013 show in Dallas. Thanks to all who stopped by our booth and attended the panel Procera was on: Monetizing the Policy Control and Charging Opportunity.
Topics: Broadband, Deep packet inspection, Service definition, Internet intelligence, Bandwidth, Intelligent policy enforment, Quality of experience, Lte, Bandwidth control, Cable operators, Customer experience, Service velocity, Subscriber services, Network analytics, Dpi, Personalized services, Service delivery, Subscriber context
