DPI Deployments (70): Platinum Communications [Canada] Deploys Anagran

    

Anagran announced today the ".  deployment of their FR-1000 Internet traffic manager (ITM) by Platinum Communications, a wireless internet service provider currently serving all major Alberta, Canada markets ..  In replacing their legacy DPI traffic management device with Anagran’s FR-1000 ITM, Platinum Communications immediately experienced significant improvements in both inbound and outbound network utilization, freeing up extremely valuable network capacity.  In addition, Platinum Communications was able to guarantee tiered bandwidth services to their commercial customers while maintaining fair and equitable distribution of bandwidth to their residential subscribers".

See "Platinum Communications Deploys Anagran FR-1000 Internet Traffic Manager"  - here.

Platinum Communications is a fixed-wireless ISP, with 8,500 internet subscribers, and an ARPU of $50/month. Residential subscribers  generate 87% of total revenue.

Tim Luttman (picture), COO, Platinum Communications said: "Our customers are small and large enterprises as well as other service providers, and use our network to join together their remote locations and conduct critical business activities ..  The FR-1000 was the best solution at ensuring guaranteed bandwidth SLA’s, mitigating the impact of unauthorized bandwidth abusers, and maintaining tiered service integrity for business customers”,

DPI Deployments (53): Solid Broadband [Philippines] Deployed Anagran for Tiered Services/Fair Usage

    

Anagran announced the ".. deployment of their FR-1000 Internet traffic manager by Solid Broadband Corp., operator of My|Destiny Cable and Global Destiny CATV services"

See "Anagran Scores Another Cable MSO With Solid Broadband Corp." - here

Rafael Santiago, Sr. Manager of Network Operations, Solid Broadband Corp said: "..  The FR-1000’s IP Flow-State technology and service differentiation capabilities enabled us to both ensure each subscriber had real-time fair usage of our network resources and that our tiered pricing plans could be enforced".

DPI Deployments (46): Sun Country Cablevision Uses Anagran to Improve Video QoE

  

Anagran announced ".. the deployment of their FR-1000 Internet traffic manager by Sun Country Cablevision. Replacing their legacy traffic management device with Anagran’s FR-1000 immediately improved Sun Country Cablevision’s customers’ quality of experience".

See "Sun Country Cablevision Deploys Anagran FR-1000 Internet Traffic Manager" - here

Mason Schmitt, Manager of Internet Operations, Sun Country Cablevision said: "The limited throughput capacity of our previous Internet traffic management device was a severe bottleneck on our network and it was incapable of fairly managing our available bandwidth across all subscribers ..  We recognize that video is fast becoming the key determinant of our customers’ Internet experience, so when we evaluated bandwidth management products, we focused on the tool that would enable us to provide the highest quality video experience to our customers – the FR-1000 won hands down and was less expensive than the competition"

Note the following (10 years old, I guess) page on Sun's web site (here) - "To avoid charges for excessive downloads and uploads, please manage your P2P share folders. See below to manage your share folder in Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus, Napster, Audio Galaxy, Limewire and WinMX"

Are we going to have Internet with Caller ID?

 
According to an article by Cheryl Gerber on Miiltary Information Technology, "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing the equivalent of Caller ID for the Internet through a Military Networking Protocol contract awarded to a Lockheed Martin-led industry team.".

See "MilNet-Protocol Goes with the Flow" - here.

"Delivering secure MilNet-Protocol technology will let operators know who is on their networks at all times. “Today’s Internet is based on anonymous flows of data, so we are adding a layer on top of that with user information to make sure the traffic is authorized,” said Mike Briske, Lockheed Martin MilNet-P program manager, C4ISR Systems. “It’s a routing protocol that ties in secure aspects of user attribution to every packet flowing through the network.” Part of the MilNet-P technology is based on Anagran Inc.’s FR-1000 flow-based, network traffic management technology, which processes data by flow rather than individual packets".

Anagran is a provider of equipment that competes with DPI gear. Its CEO, Lawrence Roberts, designed and led the team that developed ARPANET in 1969, and founded Caspian Networks which built similar systems to Anagran.

It is unclear from the (very long) article how this technology could become part of the public, open, internet as it mentions that it it replaces the TCP layer (with TIA-1039 - "QoS Signaling for IP QoS Support" - here). Additional benefits listed - QoS, controlling P2P traffic ("alternative to DPI") and Botnet defense.

Related post - "Google - [Our] TCP Can Do 12% Better" - here.