DPI Announcements: Astellia's IP Probe

    

Astellia announced "the launch of Neptune, its new generation of intelligent and high capacity IP probing systems. The first release, Neptune for Gn, is designed to help operators monitor and optimize their mobile broadband networks and deal with the traffic surge"

See "Astellia to release new intelligent probe for core data networks" - here.

Astellia provides monitoring solutions for the optimisation of mobile networks operating (see chart below) on a global scale since 2000, helping more than 175 mobile operators and equipment vendors to maximize their network performance.  The company is traded in the Euronext stock exchange with market cap of €32.9M. Revenues for 2009 were €25.6M and €14.9M for the first half of 2010.

The product competes with other vendors offering probes, and with the offering of DPI vendors, providing both monitoring capabilities (as a basic feature) and active traffic management and shaping.

"The new platform performs data capture over 1GE or 10GE Ethernet links [and] embeds a whole set of intelligent technologies such as:

• Innovative Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to classify data traffic and identify the various applications used for every session such as YouTube, Facebook and Skype,
• User Plane traffic and session summaries for usage analysis and fault management,
• Highly flexible User Plane targeting and sampling"

Frederic Vergine, Astellia's CTO said: "Measuring and delivering the highest level of user experience applying differentiated QoS is one of our customers’ main challenges”