The challenge
To protect margins and revenues in competitive telecom markets, operators need Revenue Assurance solutions based on accurate information about network traffic and services. Vendor of Revenue Assurance solutions need to collect this information easily, reliably and at multi-Gbps throughputs.
Qosmos solution
Qosmos ixMachine is a Streaming Probe based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) that can strengthen Revenue Assurance capabilities quickly and cost-effectively. Qosmos ixMachine provides ready-to-use, high performance network data collection which enables accurate usage reconciliation and billing verification.
Benefits
Performance
- Uses the most reliable source of data: the network
- Streams CDRs/xDRs in real time up to multi-Gbps throughputs
- Comes with built-in recognition of hundreds of protocols and applications, thousands of metadata (continuously updated)
Flexibility & effectiveness
- Not impacted by network configuration changes or equipment updates
- Visibility on all protocols and services per subscriber: VoIP, mobile, data, over-the-top services
- Plug and play probe, easy to implement
Example of Implementation: Revenue Assurance
Information Extracted: Revenue Assurance
Recognized applications and protocols (sample)
- Audio/Video: H.323, RTP, RTCP, SIP, MGCP, MMSE, RTSP, Shoutcast, Yahoo Video, msn Video, SCCP, Skype, etc.
- Video streaming: Dailymotion, YouTube, etc.
- VoIP: H.323, SIP, RTP
- Instant Messaging: AIM, msn, Skype, Yahoo, Google Talk, QQ, etc.
- Webmail: Gmail, Hotmail, Livemail, Squirrelmail, Yahoo mail, etc.
- Network: IP, TCP, FTP, SNMP, etc.
- Web applications: Google, eBay, Google Earth, HTTP, MySpace, Wikipedia, etc.
Extracted information (sample)
- Content type, volume, sender, receiver, caller, called party, phone number, MSISDN, IMSI, URL, MIME type, Time stamp, etc.