Allot (News - Alert) Communications and Qosmos have announced a joint solution in which Allot DPI devices work in conjunction with Qosmos Information Extraction appliances to capture business-critical information and implement Quality of Service (QoS) policies to optimize any VoIP service.

 

Developed as part of Allot’s Service Gateway (News - Alert) strategy, this integrated solution utilizes DPI technology to enable a wide array of revenue-generating services.

 

Company officials said that the integrated solution helps service providers in multi-play broadband environments overcome the challenges associated with providing VoIP services such as billing, fraud prevention and guaranteeing QoS.

 

The joint solution facilitates advanced charging options by collecting call level usage information as well as operational and marketing information on service usage patterns.

 

Officials also pointed out that the solution is integrated with external billing and anti-fraud systems to further support reliable revenue performance. Additionally, the system can be applied to help service providers comply with lawful interception and data retention regulations.

 

Leveraging VoIP monitoring and charging through Call Detail Records (CDR) collection, Qosmos (News - Alert) Information Extraction appliance is seamlessly integrated with Allot Service Gateway and NetEnforcer IP service optimization solutions.

 

Officials explained that when operating with the Qosmos Information Extraction solution, deep packet inspection engines in Allot’s NetEnforcer and Service Gateway platforms identify the VoIP traffic—signaling and media flows—and redirect this traffic to the Qosmos probes.

 

Also, NetXplorer, Allot’s centralized management system, configures QoS policies which are implemented through the NetEnforcer or Service Gateway.

 

“Qosmos appliances extract fine-grained information from IP networks to enable a large range of innovative applications, including VoIP charging and monitoring, usage tracking, security, revenue assurance and anti-fraud applications and services,” commented, Thibaut Bechetoille, CEO at Qosmos.

 

He also said that when deployed in conjunction with Allot’s Service Gateway, service providers can take QoS and QoE the joint-solution one step further in terms of capacity, availability and active control.

 

Qosmos is a provider of Information Extraction and Deep Packet Inspection (ixDPI) technologies. The company’s products, composed of software modules and appliances, enable detection and extraction of business-critical information traveling over IP networks.

 

“The partnership with Qosmos is a great example of the expansion of services provided by Allot Service Gateway solutions,” said Azi Ronen, executive vice president of Corporate Development at Allot.