[Rumors]: Allot to Buy Ortiva Wireless

Orr Hirschauge reports to The Marker that Allot Communications is going to acquire Ortiva Wireless, a vendor of video optimization solutions for mobile operators. (here, Hebrew - I was interviewed to the story).

Ortiva's solutions provides 4 main functions: Application Aware Bandwidth Allocation, Client Buffer Management, Content Aware Bandwidth Reduction and Network Aware Adaption.  Like Allot, Ortiva uses ATCA as its hardware platform, and uses blades from Radisys (former Continuous Computing products). Ortiva is listed by Allot as a partner (here).Ortiva has also relations with Procera (here) and Sandvine (here).

Allot is looking for video optimization technology for long time now, and was previously in negotiations with other vendors in this space, including Mobixell and Flash Networks (here). Such offering may compete with the DPI/optimization integrated solutions from Bytemobile (here and here) and those that are planned by F5 (here) as well as other vendors. Allot already has a video caching solution integrated in its gateway (OEM from PeerApp).

DPI Announcements: After CCPU Acquisition, RadiSys Launches a New ATCA Blade

   

RadiSys announced "..  the Promentum^TM ATCA-7240, the third-generation of products based on the Cavium Networks® (NASDAQ: CAVM) OCTEON® family of multi-core processors. The versatile full-duplex 40G packet processing module provides a complete line-rate solution for applications such as Serving Gateways (SGW), Session Border Control (SBC), Security Gateways, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Edge Routers, Media Gateways and Mobility Management Entity (MME) network elements found in the 4G LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC)"

The news come days after the company announced the acquisition of Continuous Computing (here), a vendor of similar blades (see "Continuous Computing 200Gbps DPI Platform" - here).

"The ATCA-7240 with Dual OCTEON II CN68XX processors improves upon the field-proven advantages of the previous generation ATCA-7220  (picture) Dual OCTEON CN58XX by delivering up to 80 gigabits per second (Gbps) processing performance, increased memory capacity and maximum I/O density to meet industry demand for highly integrated, higher performance-per-watt solutions and provides a path for future scalability to next-generation networks. The ATCA-7240 is based on two powerful OCTEON II CN68XX processors, each with 32 cnMIPS64 cores and comprehensive hardware acceleration for demanding packet processing, security and deep packet inspection applications with or without I/O"

DPI Market: Radisys Acquires Continues Computing for $120M (Cash, Stock and Earn-outs)

  

RadiSys announced that "it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Continuous Computing Corporation .. key customer applications include 3G and 4G Wireless infrastructure, Small Cell base stations, Traffic Management, Internet Offload and Network Security"

Background:

• DPI Announcements: Continuous Computing 200Gbps DPI Platform - here
• How to Build DPI Products? (Part II - System Design) - here.

"Consideration for the acquisition is comprised of approximately $73 million in cash, funded with cash on hand, and 3,666,667 shares of RadiSys common stock Assuming a stock closing price on May 2, 2011 of $8.69 the stock consideration represents $31.9 million. In addition to the consideration payable at closing, RadiSys will make earnout payments based on revenues generated by a specified set of Trillium products over a three year period following the closing of the acquisition. In lieu of the earn-out payments, RadiSys has the right to make a one-time payment of cash and/or RadiSys shares with a combined aggregate value of $15 million up to 18 months after the closing date"

See "RadiSys Reports Higher than Expected Q1 2011 Revenue and Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Continuous Computing" - here.

Brian Wood (picture), Continuous Computing's VP of Marketing states in the company Blog that "Over the coming months the acquisition will be going through regulatory review. In the meantime, Continuous Computing and RadiSys will be conducting business as separate companies as we do today — and we will stay focused on our Q2 and 2011 objectives"

DPI Announcements: Continuous Computing 200Gbps DPI Platform

   

Continuous Computing announced a new model for its ATCA based  FlexTCA platform, with 200 Gbps performance and 100GE interfaces (here), targeting network equipment vendors developing DPI products.

The highest performance we have seen so far for a standalone DPI product comes from Allot, with its recent 160Gbps announcement (See "Allot Boosts the Service Gateway to LTE" - here), also based on similar h/w components (ATCA, Netlogic packet processors). Nevertheless, Allot's Service Gateway is a fully functional product, while CCPU's platform still requires an additional application layer, which may or may not be able to explore the full performance potential of the platform.

While CCPU's new platform may seen as getting closer to an end-user solution (as it now combines DPI s/w, see below), Brian Wood (picture), CCPU's VP marketing, says that "CCPU draws a line just below the application layer and does not cross it"

"With this new platform family, network intelligence solutions such as Policy Charging and Enforcement Functions (PCEF) can exceed 200Gbps while wireless core and security applications can scale up to 320Gbps. Since “wire-speed” performance is so essential for DPI-based application differentiation and success, the cutting-edge FlexTCA family raises the ceiling on what is possible with mobile network packet processing platforms"

See "Continuous Computing Introduces Industry’s Highest Performance, Highest Capacity ATCA DPI Platforms" - here.

The new announcement includes the PP81 (here), a new packet processing blade with 40Gbps performance, a new switch (FM81, here) and a DPI software package (see "Continuous Computing Packages Qosmos, 6WIND and Wind River Packet Processing", here). With the FM81 "Continuous Computing’s new FlexTCA DPI platform is the first to come with native 100GbE interfaces".

DPI Announcements: Continuous Computing Packages Qosmos, 6WIND and Wind River Packet Processing

Barriers to entry the DPI market lower and products are quickly easier to develop, as a number of enabling technologies, combining packet processors, DPI and system s/w as well as blades are now available from multiple sources. While the cost ‘instant DPI’ is probably high, it shortens time to market while commoditizing the basic DPI features

Continuous Computing announced ".. FlowEngine, a deep packet inspection (DPI) software framework to enable network equipment providers (NEPs) to accelerate development and delivery of applications that make use of DPI. Designed to save time and boost performance, FlowEngine combines best-in-class software components with Continuous Computing’s load balancing and Trillium monitoring software with an extensive range of application intelligence software from Qosmos and packet processing software from 6WIND and Wind River".

See "Continuous Computing Announces FlowEngine Framework and Partner Ecosystem to Enable Complete, End-to-End DPI-based Applications" - here.  

The new package should allow network equipment vendors to quickly develop DPI applications using Continues Computing's ATCA DPI blade, based on NetLogic XLR packet processors (here). In a way, it competes with Cavium, who offers its own packet processors and a DPI s/w package (see "Cavium Now Offers DPI s/w" - here). A 3rd option is available from Netronome and Qosmos (here).

Mike Langlois, general manager for networking and telecommunications at Wind River (a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel), stated: “The ongoing explosion of data traffic demands advanced packet handling solutions that enable a range of network acceleration capabilities including DPI. The combination of Continuous Computing’s FlowEngine with Wind River runtime technologies, such as Wind River Network Acceleration Platform, can deliver an innovative solution that helps our customers break through the traffic bottleneck and bring much needed network intelligence to improve ARPU.”

DPI Announcement: Wipro and Continuous Computing Offer a Mobile Internet Offload Gateway

     

Wipro Technologies and Continuous Computing announced that "the two companies are working together to provide carrier-class Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Femtocell products for network equipment providers .  A jointly developed Mobile Internet Offload Gateway (IOGW) solution .. By configuring the IOGW at the Iu-PS interface, the data traffic is offloaded away from the SGSN/GGSN directly toward the Internet based on specific offload criteria configured by the operators. Such line-rate DPI intelligence enables operators to change policies dynamically based on traffic type and user SLAs".

See "Wipro Technologies and Continuous Computing Join Hands to Develop Wireless Solutions for Long Term Evolution (LTE) Network Infrastructure"  - here.

See also the recent announcement from Sandvine, for a DPI device that maybe implemented in the same network  location (here).

"With the IOGW providing higher throughput while decongesting core network bottlenecks, service providers can achieve incremental CAPEX savings of more than 60% – realizing benefits right from the first year of deployment. The IOGW is a 3GPP SIPTO (Selected IP Traffic Offload) standards-based IuPS offload solution for UMTS  networks".

See more details on SIPTO - here.

  



Source: FemtoForum



"Network Intelligence Alliance" Launched by Qosmos

      

Qosmos, a provider of DPI technology based in Paris, announced today "the launch of the Network Intelligence Alliance, consisting of technology providers involved in traffic capture, processing, decoding, analysis, leveraging of data as it crosses communications networks"

See "Qosmos: Network Intelligence Alliance Unites Vendors to Better Secure, Manage, and Monetize Network Economy" - here.

Founding members of the NI Alliance [site - here] include:

• Infrastructure suppliers for traffic capture and processing, namely, Continuous Computing, Napatech, NetLogic Microsystems, and Tilera
   
• Qosmos, the leading supplier of Network Intelligence technology
   
• Software vendors, namely, Click&DECiDE, Crossing-Tech, BreakingPoint Systems, and EdenWall Technologies, Rainstor, GfK Group

Brian Partridge, Vice President of Yankee Group's network research said. “We have been following the rise of network intelligence solutions and see their use growing in better securing, tracking and monetizing data across networks, devices, and users. Collaborative groups such as the NI Alliance will help to educate the market on this important area.”

How to Build DPI Products? (Part III - Design for 100G Systems)

     

This time, a presentation from Continuous Computing on using a blade design to support 40 and 100 GE interfaces and capacity in DPI products.





See below or at "DPI at 40G and 100G: Moving Beyond Appliances" - here.