Scalable Product Range

Qosmos ixMachine 10 Series

CPE solution, extracting information up to 50 Mbps, for applications such as IPTV user panels and converged IP/Web application audience measurement.

Qosmos ixMachine 100 Series

Entry level information extraction machine for rapid deployment in access networks (typically near routers) and small enterprise networks.

Qosmos ixMachine 1 000 Series

High-speed, multi-gigabits per second network appliances, incorporating the latest multi-core CPU architectures, specially designed for high-volume information extraction.

Qosmos ixMachine 10 000 Series

The highest performance available in network information extraction, designed for high throughputs of up to 20 Gbps and beyond, 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.

The Qosmos ixMachine are avalaible as hardware or as software-only format (ixMOS).

Best-In-Class Network Intelligence

It has been specifically designed to:

• Identify protocols and applications with unparalleled precision and depth,
• Extract valuable data contained in IP flows in real time,
• Deliver structured information for the creation of new applications that leverage detailed network intelligence

• Identify and classify traffic flows, either protocols (e.g. HTTP) or applications (e.g. Webmail),
• Generate application streams. Multiple sessions (e.g. RTP and SIP) are correlated to make an application stream. Qosmos network intelligence relates to an application - VoIP - rather than just several separate RTP and SIP flows,
• Extract in real-time the information embedded in, or computed from the traffic. Information can be:
  • Metadata: caller, type of file downloaded, IMSI
  • Content: data used to reconstitute application objects (e.g. an email or a VoIP stream based on RTP data)
• Use a structured format for extracted metadata, to easily feed applications,
• Implement smart flow management based on metadata and content.Deliver structured information for the creation of new applications that leverage detailed network intelligence.

Protocol and Application Experts

• The widest and deepest protocol and application knowledge on the market:
  • Over 300 protocols and applications recognized
  • Over 4,000 metadata extracted
• Protocol and application identification and information extraction:
  • Metadata (caller, IMSI, type of attachment in email, etc.) and content (email data, RTP stream, etc.)
• Protocol and Application Watch to react to network technology evolution
• Regular protocol and application updates by Qosmos
• New protocols implemented in days
• Users can develop their own network intelligence, creating custom protocol and application plug-ins
• Examples of protocols and application recognized include:
  • Mobile telephony: WAP, GTP, etc.
  • Audio/Video streaming: RTP, RTSP, WMP, YouTube, Dailymotion, 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.

Advanced Technology for 100% Reliability

• On-the-fly decoding and analysis of traffic flows
• Session reconstruction/management and packet reordering
• NO use of TCP/UDP ports for classification: identification of protocol based only on syntax and semantic analysis
• Dynamic session state: dynamic parsing of flows according to protocol grammar (unlike static pattern matching)
• Computes correlation key for each session
• Inheritance of metadata on correlated sessions (e.g. SIP session metadata “Caller” inherited in RTP session state)
• Full visibility into tunneled traffic (up to 16 levels of encapsulation)
• Operates on fragmented, duplicated, de-sequenced session packets
• Operates on bidirectional and unidirectional traffic

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.

Powerful Information Extraction Rules

Qosmos’ 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.
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.

Hardware Specifications

System Performances*

* 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.