DPI Announcements - Cisco/Starent PGW - DPI, QoS, LI

    

Cisco updated on Friday its information on "Cisco PGW Packet Data Network Gateway" (PGW), a function that is supported on Cisco's ASR 5000 multimedia core platforms (the former Starent ST40 GGSN product).

See the introduction - here.

According to Cisco, the PGW function supports also the following functions, all in the ASR-5000 platform - and seems to be available now.

• Acts as the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF)
• Manages quality of service (QoS)
• Provides deep-packet inspection and lawful intercept