Overview

Shift your understanding of network usage from traditional packet-by-packet DPI analysis to advanced DPI, enabling unrivalled information extraction over IP networks.

Based on Qosmos network information extraction (iX) technology, the Qosmos ixMachine (Qosmos ixM) portfolio of next-generation network appliances is specially designed for system integrators to meet the complex challenges of network analysis and information extraction requirements. It demonstrates Qosmos’ continued commitment to providing best in field infrastructure solutions, specially tailored to support clients’ business objectives and leverage business growth.

By choosing the right Qosmos ixM hardware, from access to core networks, system integrators can provide their clients with unmatched visibility on network usages and metrics, enabling a wide variety of innovative high added value applications, including:

• Smart Network Optimization: unmatched visibility over network usage enables advanced optimization
• Aware billing: operators can bill not only based on the volumes of data exchanged, but also based on real usage of services, applications, content, etc.
• Data leak prevention & copyright enforcement: prevent illegal distribution of confidential documents and copyrighted materials
• Network surveillance, intelligence & legal interception: detect and intercept illegal communications over the web, whatever the application – chat, webmails, etc.

Scalable Product Range

Qosmos ixMachine 10 Series
Qosmos’s extra-lite digital household solution, extracting information up to 50 Mbps, enables applications such as IPTV user panels and converged IP/Web application audience measurement.

Qosmos ixMachine 100 Series
Qosmos’s entry level information extraction machine for rapid deployment in access networks (typically near routers) and small enterprise networks.

Qosmos ixMachine 1 000 Series
Qosmos’s gigabits per second network appliances, incorporating the latest multi-core CPU architectures, specially designed for high-volume information extraction and selective traffic forwarding.

Qosmos ixMachine 10 000 Series
The highest performance available in network information extraction, designed for very high throughputs of up to 20 Gbps, as found in operators’ edge and core networks. It integrates the latest high-volume processing technologies, including dedicated multi-core packet processors and multi-blade dispatching.

Powered by Qosmos iX

iX by Qosmos expands the capabilities of DPI with unique features that:

• Identify protocols and applications with unrivalled accuracy and reliability,
• Extract valuable data contained in IP flows in real time,
• And make this information available for the creation of new applications that leverage high-value network knowledge.

All Qosmos ixMachine appliances are based on Qosmos’ unique iX technology and provide the same information extraction features, allowing you to:

• Identify applications whatever port numbers they use, based on semantic and grammatical protocol recognition,
• Detect when tunneling protocols are used, and parse through them to find the information they encapsulate,
• Group application data into their respective flows, and use signaling information to group correlated flows into sessions,
• Extract application metadata and content, to provide a truly unique database view of the network.

Protocol and Application Knowledge

Over 300 protocols & applications recognized and over 4000 attributes extracted (attributes are characteristics extracted from a protocol or an application)

Examples of protocols and applications recognized by Qosmos ixMachine appliances include:

• Mobile telephony: WAP, GTP, etc.
• Audio/Video streaming: RTP, RTSP, WMP, YouTube, Dailymotion, Real Player etc.
• VoIP: H323, SIP, MGCP, etc.
• Business: Citrix, Oracle, SAP, MS Exchange, McAfee, etc.
• Peer-to-Peer: eMule, BitTorrent, etc.
• Network: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, etc.
• Instant Messaging: Skype, MSN, Gtalk, etc.
• Webmails: gmail, hotmail, yahoomail, etc.

On demand custom protocol and application signature development

Nature of Information Extracted

Protocol and Application Meta Data
Types of information:

• Service classification: protocol and encapsulation information
• Performance: bandwidth usage, volumes, delays
• Usages: URLs, IMSI, type of attached document, call duration
• Identifiers: caller, callee, etc.

Content

• Subject of messages in plain text (email, chat)
• Content of messages in plain text (email, chat)
• Content of attached documents (Word, PPT documents)
• Application data (VoIP RTP payload, etc.)
• Queries (web applications, database)

Powerful Information Extraction Rules

Qosmos’s intuitive Information eXtraction Query Language, very similar to SQL, provides a flexible, easy-to-use tool for the implementation of made-to-measure business rules.

Accessible via command line interface, Qosmos ixQuery Language enables users to rapidly select only the critical information they need.

Advanced users will appreciate the flexibility and versatility of Qosmos ixQuery Language, combining powerful deep extraction and the finest selection of aggregated information available.

Seamless Integration

Qosmos ixMachine appliances are designed to meet the challenges of system integration. Installed passively in port mirroring or split configuration mode, they may be connected anywhere on the network, exactly where the required information is to be found.
Qosmos ixMachine appliances are carrier-class network equipment.
They interface with standard reporting tools.

Hardware Specifications

	Qosmos ixM 10 Series	Qosmos ixM 100 Series	Qosmos ixM 1000 Series	Qosmos ixM 10 000 Series
Form Factor
	Desktop	1U Server	2U Server	ATCA 5U Chassis
Monitoring Interface
	2 x 100 Mbps Ethernet	4 x 1 Gbps Ethernet	4 x 1 Gbps Ethernet	4 x 10 Gbps Ethernet
Information eXtraction output interface
	1 x 100 Mbps Ethernet	1 x 1 Gbps Ethernet	1 x 1 Gbps Ethernet	2 x 10 Gbps Ethernet
Management interface
	1 x 100 Mbps Ethernet	1 x 1 Gbps Ethernet	1 x 1 Gbps Ethernet	1 x 1 Gbps Ethernet

System Performances*

	Qosmos ixM 10 Series	Qosmos ixM 100 Series	Qosmos ixM 1000 Series	Qosmos ixM 10 000 Series
Number of flows
	30 000 flows	250 000 flows	2 000 000 flows	10 000 000 flows
Average performance in classification mode
	25 kpps 60 Mbps	200 kpps 500 Mbps	1 600 kpps 4 Gbps	8 000 kpps 20 Gbps
Average performance in full extraction mode
	13 kpps 30 Mbps	100 kpps 250 Mbps	800 kpps 2 Gbps	4 000 kpps 10 Gbps

* Note: Aggregate throughput observed on a real case usage for an average packet size of 330 bytes. Maximum performance depends on nature of traffic, number of new sessions, nature and number of extracted indicators.