P-Com, a provider of point-to-point, spread spectrum, and point-to-multipoint broadband wireless products, announced plans to acquire privately held Procera Networks, which designs and builds Layer 7 switches that provide wire-speed routing, switching, flow metering and packet shaping. Procera's Layer 7 switch provides granular management of bandwidth and applications. The company is based in Sunnyvale, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. P-Com said microwave radio suppliers have traditionally handed off bandwidth management to specialized third party networking devices. With the Procera technology, P-Com's wireless solutions will be able to groom network traffic by prioritizing applications.
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- Earlier this month, P-Com and Telaxis mutually terminated their planned merger. The deal would have combined P-Com's point-to-point, spread spectrum, and point-to-multipoint broadband wireless products with Telaxis' FiberLeap products, which also provide wireless extensions for fiber networks.
