DPI Deployments (80): Turkcel/TurkCell Superonline Use Optenet Web Filtering (Cisco and Sandvine DPI)

  

Two weeks after announcing the deployment by Vodafone Turkey (see " Vodafone Turkey Uses Optenet and Allot for Web Filtering" - here), Optenet now announces that "both Turkcell and Turkcell Superonline, with market leadership in five of the nine countries in which it operates and approximately 60.4 million subscribers, to provide filtering services to its residential customers in Turkey .. Optenet will enable Turkcell and Turkcell Superonline to effectively filter all Web/WAP content classified as illegal by government authorities, ensuring they do not inadvertently transfer content prohibited by law .. It is a complete solution that is able to filter both HTTP and non-HTTP traffic. ".

Source: Turkcell Q1 Presentation

While the Vodafone solution was integrated with DPI gear from Allot, this time it it "fully integrated with their infrastructure interoperating with CISCO SCE and Huawei for Turkcell and Sandvine DPI for Turkcell Superonline"

See "Turkcell and Turkcell Superonline select Optenet and Alcatel-Lucent to provide fully law compliant filtering services to its residential customers before August 22, 2011 in accordance with new Turkish government regulations" - here.

Gartner: "it is time to have DDoS protection considered "

   

John Pescatore (pictured), VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, explains that "There have definitely been environmentally caused Internet outages, but in this case denial of service attacks are the leading cause. There are low scale attacks that anyone who can spell LOIC can launch and then there are large scale distributed attacks that take a bit more knowledge of botnets and the like, but DoS attacks are basically like thunderstorms on the Internet: hard to predict when they will hit, but they will and you can build a thunderstorm-proof Internet connection – just the way you can have thunderstorm proof power to your datacenter".

See "Still in Denial About Denial of Service?" - here.

See also - "Yankee Group Prediction: A Denial-of-Service Attack Will Take a 4G Network Down" - here, and "DPI: NSA Scans AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink Traffic Going to Defense Firms" - here, with a short review of solutions from the DPI players.