Allot Network Intelligence

** Update – With the retirement of the PacketShaper traffic shaping line, Allot is Broadcom/Symantec’s recommended replacement vendor.  Allot is offering attractive  discounts for product replacements to help customers transition from PacketShaper to equivalent Allot products.  Click here for more info.

Allot Communications optimizes the performance of many of the world’s largest networks, including five of the top ten mobile networks, serving over one BILLION users world-wide. Their Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) empowers enterprises, service providers, and universities to monitor and control user and application behavior, and protect from security threats.  Between granular shaping policies and DDoS mitigation, QoE enforcement is a reality.

Need More Bandwidth, But Don’t Want To Pay For It?

You get more benefit from controlling your current links than from doubling the bandwidth, which you would pay for forever. The bandwidth-robbing traffic will just grow as fast as your bandwidth, so identify it, control it!

Consistent Quality of Experience (QoE)

More than anything, you want satisfied users.  Allot will identify traffic with the most advanced deep packet inspection available.  Backed by the industry’s best protocol database, port-hopping and encryption are not problems. Classify traffic exactly, and guarantee mission-critical applications run great.  Once you have the extremely accurate traffic analysis that intelligence can be used to craft policies that will maximize user QoE.  Whether a service provider or enterprise, satisfied users are key to success and profitability.  Lastly, ClearSee reporting provides critical QoE analysis to verify policy effects and ease QoE enforcement.

Get the Features You Need

First, 15-second updates for an entire dashboard of graphs gives the greatest detail available in one information-packed screen. This provides real-time feedback on traffic shaping policies and QoE enforcement. Secondly, extensive drill-down of real-time and long term graphs unmatched by anyone makes for quick and easy forensics. All information for all traffic is recorded – not limited to pre-selected reports like others.  Thirdly, easily manage multiple units – no third-party tools, nor CLI programming. True out-of-band management is standard. For multiple links, Allot handles that better than anyone, with great asymmetry support.

With As Much Performance As You Need

With models ranging up to 4Tbps with clustering, Allot Service Gateways can handle the small branch office up to the largest carriers, and have been independently tested to deliver full rated speed with 100% inspection. Redundancy features provide continuous uptime.  In addition all products are now available in virtual editions for further flexibility.

While Securing it Too

Allot’s advanced heuristics supports security in many ways. This includes detecting unknown VPN apps, Email or file transfers on non-standard ports, things a firewall can’t do.  Their DDoS mitigation system (see below) is a huge tool for securing your network.

Cloud Optimization

Is your business dependent on the cloud?  If so, then it is even more important to control your web traffic so that mission critical apps get the resources they need.  Allot’s traffic shaping can optimize individual Office 365 applications (ie. Excel vs. Outlook), and functions within certain corporate apps (ie. twelve different Oracle DB transaction types).  Allot addresses enterprise concerns for the entire Office 365 suite, with visibility, control, and security.  We can put all our technology in your cloud via virtualization, which fits right in your NFV initiatives

SD-WAN

SD-WAN has become popular, but has many of the same problems that Allot fixes elsewhere.  Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is a new discipline promoted by Gartner. DEM offers a unique way to help both employee and customer experience, basically QoE enforcement.  Benefit from long term behavior profiling and ongoing QoE monitoring, for capacity planning and SLA enforcement.  In short, SD-WAN offers improved connectivity, while Allot offers the best application control, DEM/QoE, and encrypted traffic awareness.

TCP Optimization

Allot’s unique TCP Optimization solution can accelerate many type of traffic, with just one box!  Normal optimization solutions require a box on both ends of a link.  Yet another way you get more bandwidth for your buck!

DDoS Secure – PDF

DDoS Secure is zero-day defense against distributed denial of service attacks, outbound spam, and infected botnet hosts. This is with 100% packet analysis at multi-gigabit speeds – no sampling!  Typical detection and mitigation is under a minute(!), blazingly fast compared to more expensive standalone solutions.  It performs surgical mitigation to maintain legitimate sessions & QoE, unlike the hatchet job of competitors.  As the percentage of data center outages caused by DDoS attacks has grown, DDoS Secure is a must for maintaining SLAs and network integrity.  Stop smaller attacks that fly under the radar yet rob bandwidth and endanger your network.  Lastly, their BGP blackholing option stops attacks at the upstream provider.  This is far better than scrubbing services.

Subscriber Management Platform (SMP) – PDF

For the enterprise, SMP, via directory integrations, can have policies by users and user groups, chargebacks, and more.  Service providers can offer tiered services and flexible control of subscriber traffic to provide customized packages.  This increases ARPU and subscriber satisfaction. Maintain fair service and reduce complaints, with easy provisioning of new subscribers. Many service providers are seeing an ROI measured in months!

Security as a Service (SECaaS) – PDF

For service providers, increase your ARPU via Home Secure while providing a desirable service including parental controls, anti-malware, anti-phishing, and content filtering,.  Since it requires no client software  it protects IoT devices and other non-computer endpoints such as gaming consoles. For businesses, Network Secure provides similar capabilities tuned to business needs, protecting corporate assets and aiding in compliance concerns.  Allot SECaaS now protects over twenty million users, while generating valuable revenue. 

ClearSee – PDF

ClearSee allows reporting on a rich variety of application, subscriber, device and QoE data. Big data analytics and data mining technology turn that source data into the valuable business intelligence you need to drive subscriber satisfaction and service profitability.

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