[Update13 - DigitalRoute MediationZone] PCRF - DPI Compatibility Matrix

 

A new PCRF vendor is added to the matrix - Digital Route. The company provides enabling technology - "Partnerships are a fundamental part of our business. We partner with the leading vendors in the industry to provide the latest technology and business solutions meeting our end customers’ demands". The partner page (here) shows an impressive list of technology partners  - integrators and vendors (including NSN, Comverse, and Convergsys) - but does not say which is using the PCRF technology.

The product, MediationZone Policy Control (here) is presented as "an extremely flexible and high-performing policy control solution for 3GPP and non-3GPP environments, delivering control of the network resources based on service, subscriber segment or context.

Policy control with MediationZone:

• Fully-featured Policy and Charging Rules Function
• Dynamic allocation of bandwidth and quality of service (traffic shaping)
• Priority to higher revenue services
• Prevent harmful exploitation of the network
• Access control to premium-services
• Ensure fair bandwidth usage
• Online or batch interaction capability between any systems.
• Interaction with configurable SPR or any external SPR, HSS or subscriber database."

DPI interoperability is not mentioned.

In a recent press release "Policy Control with DigitalRoute’s MediationZone®" (here) Digital Route says that "one of its partners has deployed a MediationZone based Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) solution at one of the world’s largest communication service providers .. “Profitability and Quality of Service is the main driver for policy control”, said Jan Karlsson, CEO at DigitalRoute"

PCRF Vendor	PCRF Product	Allot	Arbor	Cisco	Procera	Sandvine
Alcatel-Lucent	5780 Dynamic Services Controller (DSC)
BandWD	BwDRC - Dynamic Resource Control	●		●		●
Bridgewater Systems	Policy Controller/PCRF	●	●	●		●
Broadhop	Quantum Policy Server		●	●
Comability	ComAbility neXus			●
Comptel	Comptel Policy Control™			●	●
Cisco (Starent)	Policy and Charging Control
Digital Route	MediationZone Policy Control
Ericsson	Service-Aware Policy Controller (SAPC)
Flash Networks	POLICY MANAGER
FTS	Leap™ Policy Control	●		●		●
HP	HP Policy and Charging(IUM)	●
Huawei	Open Control & Charging Gateway	●
Kabira (Tibco Software)	Policy Server			●
Mobixell (724)	X-treme Framework Platform (XF)	●		●
Nokia Siemens Networks	PCS 5000	●
Openet	FusionWorks™ Policy Manager			●		●
Redknee	Policy Manager (PCRF)			●		●
Tekelec (Camiant)	Multimedia Policy Engine	●	●	●	●	●
Telcordia	Telcordia Bandwidth Manager
Volubill	CONTROL-IT Policy Manager
ZTE	ZXUN RCP	●