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October 31, 2007
Allot Deploys Industry's First Open, Carrier Class Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Platform
By Brian Solomon, TMCnet Web Editor
The Allot (News - Alert) Service Gateway, Omega Series (SG-Omega), the industry’s first open, standards-based platform for broadband service control and optimization based on Layer-7 DPI has been deployed in a commercial installation, according to an announcement from the company. The Service Gateway (News - Alert) provides broadband providers a platform to build manageable, secure and profitable intelligent networks that are able to deliver Internet-based services and content.
"Deep packet inspection has a vital role to play in next-generation broadband networks," said Rami Hadar (News - Alert), Allot CEO and President. "We believe that the Allot Service Gateway will pave a new direction for DPI. It is a carrier-grade solution that overcomes the barriers of performance, reliability, application awareness and subscriber awareness that have made it difficult for service providers to control capital and operating costs, and manage the torrent of Internet content and applications traversing their networks."
Based on an AdvancedTCA (News - Alert) chassis for deployment in service provider networks, the Service Gateway possesses resilient software and hardware architecture that ensures platform availability and stability through hot-swappable blades, internal hardware and software bypass mechanisms that protect against failures, and efficient N+1 redundancy within the chassis.
The Service Gateway was recently deployed at a major DSL
Internet service provider located in the Asia Pacific area. It operates on 10 Gigabit Ethernet lines, intelligently managing high-volume IP flows on its core network, and is also currently undergoing evaluations at additional carriers.
The SG-Omega leverages Layer-7 DPI technology in a carrier-grade platform to help service providers and broadband carriers keep costs down, at the same time ensuring a quality experience, and supporting throughput of more than 20 gigabits per second. It is capable of being configured with up to four 10-gigabit Ethernet interfaces that support two 10-Gigabit Ethernet lines. It can process up to 20 million concurrent IP flows.
The Service Gateway was recently deployed at a major DSL
Internet service provider located in the Asia Pacific area. It operates on 10 Gigabit Ethernet lines, intelligently managing high-volume IP flows on its core network, and is also currently undergoing evaluations at additional carriers.The SG-Omega leverages Layer-7 DPI technology in a carrier-grade platform to help service providers and broadband carriers keep costs down, at the same time ensuring a quality experience, and supporting throughput of more than 20 gigabits per second. It is capable of being configured with up to four 10-gigabit Ethernet interfaces that support two 10-Gigabit Ethernet lines. It can process up to 20 million concurrent IP
flows.“Broadband users are demanding an ever-increasing range of new services such as voice-over-IP, streaming video and interactive gaming,” Cam Cullen, Allot’s Director of Americas’ Product Management, told TMCnet. “Delivering these services reliably poses significant challenges for providers. Frequently, subscribers are using peer-to-peer (P2P) applications to distribute multimedia files which are extremely large and consume substantial network bandwidth. Providing a high quality user experience at reasonable cost means ensuring priority transmission for latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP while controlling excessive bandwidth consumption from P2P applications. Deep packet inspection can help service providers deliver “personalized” broadband services tailored to the requirements of specific categories of users.”
while controlling excessive bandwidth consumption from P2P applications. Deep packet inspection can help service providers deliver “personalized” broadband services tailored to the requirements of specific categories of users.” Brian Solomon is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To see more of his articles, please visit Brian Solomon’s columnist page.
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