The Challenge

With the dramatic increase in mobile IP traffic, operators need service assurance solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), for detailed insight at service, subscriber and network levels. Vendors of solutions for service and network assurance, risk spending unnecessary time and money developing enabling technology such as DPI and keeping up with constantly evolving Web protocols.

Qosmos Solution

Qosmos ixEngine is a DPI and Network Intelligence Software Development Kit (SDK) that can strengthen service assurance capabilities quickly and cost-effectively. Qosmos ixEngine scales up to tens of Gbps and comes with a continuously updated application classification and signature database.

Benefits for Service and Network Assurance Solution Vendors

1. Performance

• Enables solutions to parse traffic up to tens of Gbps throughputs
• Can label and update session context on-the-fly for more accurate processing by an application
• Comes with built-in recognition of hundreds of protocols and applications, thousands of metadata (continuously updated)

2. Speed & effectiveness

• Built with developers in mind, for easy integration into existing solutions
• Reduces typical development times by a factor 10
• Allows developers to create their own plugins to manage additional protocols

Example of Implementation

Information Extracted

Recognized Applications and Protocols (sample)

• Radius, Diameter
• Mobile: GTPC, GTPU
• Audio/Video: MPEG-TS / UDP, MPEG / RTP, IGMP, RTP, RTSP, MMS, H.323, RTP, RTCP, SIP, MGCP, MMSE, RTSP, Shoutcast, Yahoo Video, msn Video, SCCP, etc.
• VoIP: H.323, SIP, RTP
• Instant Messaging: AIM, msn, Skype, Yahoo, Google Talk, QQ, etc.
• Network: IP, TCP, FTP, SNMP, etc.
• Web applications: Dailymotion, Google, eBay, Google Earth, HTTP, MySpace, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc.
• Webmail: Gmail, Hotmail, Livemail, Squiremail, Yahoo mail, etc.

Extracted Information (sample)

• Jitter, User Agent, Content type, volume, sender, receiver, caller, called party, phone number, MSISDN, IMSI, URL, MIME type, Packet loss, Throughput, etc.