Application Market

Carrier/DSL：Carriers and DSL Providers

As voice revenues continue to decline, telecom carriers are transforming themselves into a one-stop shop for personalized applications and triple-play bundles of voice, data and video services. This creates dynamic and often extreme demand on broadband resources. In this environment, Allot's DPI-based visibility and QoS control is the key to meeting customer demands for consistent and dependable service, while ensuring that network bandwidth is apportioned cost-effectively to every subscriber.

Allot's solution portfolio allows carriers and DSL providers to accurately monitor all of the traffic and applications traversing their broadband pipes, and to apply policy-based control to guarantee that service-level agreements are enforced from end to end across the network.

WiMAX/BWA:

Cities, municipalities, and communities around the world are gearing up to provide affordable, metro-scale WiFi and WiMAX services to residential and business customers. To make wireless broadband an accepted and trusted option for customers, providers must be able to deliver consistent and dependable service. In these environments, QoS is the key to ensuring that network bandwidth is apportioned efficiently and fairly over both the wireless and wireline portions of the network.

Allot has joined forces with some of the leading vendors of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) and WiMAX infrastructure to provide complete service optimization solutions. Using Allot's advanced deep packet inspection and QoS technologies, BWA providers can establish application-aware policies to monitor and control bandwidth consumption, and to deliver an optimal level of service for all customers.

Cable TV

Cable TV and set-top boxes currently dominate the typical home entertainment network. In recent years, the introduction of cable modems has added broadband Internet access and VoIP to the cable operator's Pay TV service. Like their telecom competitors, cable companies are gearing up to offer a triple-play package of data, voice and video to their customers. To guarantee reliable delivery of these and other premium services, cable operators rely on Allot broadband management technology to identify, classify, prioritize and shape network traffic according to per-application and per-subscriber policies.

Mobile

Mobile data services are gaining momentum in GRPS and 3G networks. New handsets double as cameras with send-a-picture service options and more people are using smart phones to access office email and calendars. Allot's real-time monitoring and control capabilities ensure that data services can be enjoyed by post-paid and prepaid subscribers alike.

Service Awareness for GPRS/UMTS

Allot's unsurpassed DPI technology complements the mobile network's GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node) by providing the Layer-7 service awareness it needs to enable real-time charging per application, user, and content flow.

► Content Based Charging：GPRS infrastructure does not facilitate precise charging for content and/or applications because it extracts charging information from Layers 3 and 4 of the IP flow. In contrast, Allot NetEnforcer identifies content and applications at Layer 7, providing the session-oriented information needed for accurate charging based on the content delivered or the application being used.

► Real-Time Charging： Prepaid service providers rely on Allot DPI and QoS service control to enable real-time charging for mobile content services, including real-time quota management, advise of charge, and top-up redirect functions.

► Service Assurance：NetEnforcer allows the GGSN to achieve more precise QoS policy management and service control. In GPRS and 3G environments, many applications don't know how to request QoS, while others always ask for excessive bandwidth. Using preset policies, Allot NetEnforcer helps the GGSN allocate bandwidth resources to ensure subscribers get the quality of service they expect.

Enhancing IMS functionality in Converged Networks

As fixed and mobile networks converge into an all-IP service model, operators who control both PSTN and mobile infrastructures are developing and investing in IMS (IP multimedia service) systems to enable the creation and deployment of multimedia services on the converged network. IMS systems have a standard way to request and provide QoS to multimedia packets, and they offer all sorts of charging schemes. However, most popular internet applications like Skype, Google, online games, content-sharing, etc. are not compliant with IMS or other telco standards.

Allot NetEnforcer can bridge this gap between internet applications and telco standards by providing critical packet data to the IMS policy-decision and session-charging entities. This would enable the IMS to deliver Internet-based content and services to cellular subscribers according to the standards that have been developed.

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Enterprise

Enterprise IT organizations the world over are constantly challenged to provide more applications, services and performance without going over budget for bandwidth and infrastructure upgrades. From real-time Webinars - to WiFi hot spots in conference rooms - to accelerating the performance of mission-critical ERP and CRM applications, enterprise WANs rely on Allot DPI and QoS capabilities to manage their broadband resource cost-effectively, and to ensure quality of experience for every user.

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Education

Universities and other educational institutions are finding it harder and harder to keep up with the bandwidth demands of faculty and students while remaining within their IT budget. Popular P2P activity consumes more and more bandwidth, while critical academic and administrative applications have to compete for their share of the broadband. That's why so many universities rely on Allot solutions to show them exactly how the network is being used and how to control it.

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Government

Allot solutions helps government networks balance their needs for speed, security, reliability and performance. Through interconnected IP networks, city, state and federal governments are making their services and systems available online as they continue to support and expand intra-department communications. With millions of users located the world over, government WANs rely on Allot solutions for a cost-effective way to monitor network use, to ensure that real-time services such as VoIP do not consume excessive bandwidth, and to secure it against a diverse set of potential threats and abuse.