[Update 24 - Aptilo New PCRF for LTE] PCRF - DPI Compatibility Matrix

 

Yet another PCRF product!

Aptilo Networks announced that "the company is adding LTE ["early 2011"to its portfolio of service management and policy control solutions for operators".

See "Aptilo to Add LTE Policy and Charging Control to Portfolio of Solutions" - here.

"Aptilo’s new 4G service management platform with LTE support has a purpose-built PCRF (policy charging and rules function) that, unlike traditional solutions, is pre-integrated with optional Aptilo modules for the necessary subsystems that are usually purchased separately such as prepaid systems, subscriber database, WEB portals, statistics and reporting, voucher management and more."

Aptilo CEO Torbjorn Ward said:  “Aptilo’s holistic approach to service management with tight integration between policy and charging functions has been very successful with our WiMAX customers – from  greenfield deployments using our pre-integrated solution to large operators that require solutions that will seamlessly integrate with existing systems. We now see the same type of requirements also for LTE, and are very pleased to be able to offer this innovative and flexible solution regardless of access technology.”

The Aptilo Access Controller has a QoS function, although DPI (i.e. accurate identification of applications) is not mentioned:

"Together with the Service Profiles defined in the Aptilo Service Management Platform (SMP) the AC constitutes a powerful tool for handling differentiated service bundles with prioritization of traffic on the user level. The automatic bandwidth balancer feature of the Aptilo AC distributes available bandwidth between all active sessions according to the priorities set in the service profiles. A service can be automatically throttled down to a certain capacity if the pre-paid quota has been depleted to a specified level."

PCRF Vendor	PCRF Product	Allot	Arbor	Cisco	Procera	Sandvine
Alcatel-Lucent	5780 Dynamic Services Controller (DSC)
Alepo	3GPP Policy and Charging Rules Function
Aptilo Networks	4G service management platform
Aradial Technologies	Aradial Mobile/APC	●		●
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
EliteCore – NetVertex	Netvertex (PCRF)
Ericsson	Service-Aware Policy Controller (SAPC)
Flash Networks	POLICY MANAGER
FTS	Leap™ Policy Control	●		●		●
HP	HP Subscriber, Network and Application Policy	●
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			●		●
Orga Systems	Next Generation Control Point
Redknee	Policy Manager (PCRF)			●		●
Roox	Smart Traffic Management
Tekelec (Camiant)	Multimedia Policy Engine	●	●	●	●	●
Telcordia	Telcordia Bandwidth Manager
Volubill	CONTROL-IT Policy Manager
ZTE	ZXUN RCP	●