Optimize IP Service Operations

IP Service Intelligence

Radware transforms carrier networks into service-aware networks, delivering the visibility and control needed to effectively manage IP services for wireline and mobile operators. Radware’s intelligent service overlay lets operators manage network traffic to support IP-based service delivery, network transformation and convergence processes for pre-IMS and IMS-based reference architectures.

These carrier solutions extend a unified IP service control framework capable of at once responding to fault conditions, guaranteeing service availability, driving service performance and ensuring service and network integrity.

By optimizing IP-service operations, Radware enables high scalability and infrastructure consolidation to streamline IP service CAPEX/OPEX costs. In addition, Radware’s user, service and content awareness delivers the service visibility needed to enable new premium Internet-based service models, for profitable business evolution and average revenue per user (ARPU) growth.

With Radware, carriers gain

• Service session and transaction visibility through Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Deep Flow Inspection™ (DFI) and infrastructure virtualization, for optimized resource selection and utilization
• In the cloud (ITC) intelligent, policy-based traffic management by users, services and content, for optimized service delivery
• Support of differentiated Internet/walled garden service delivery, enabling new premium Internet-based services and usage-based tiered services, for business evolution and profitability

IP Service Visibility and Control

Radware’s carrier solutions bring intelligence to carrier networks, providing the IP service visibility and control needed to drive service reliability, growth and profitability for wireline and mobile carriers.

The APSolute architecture couples wire-speed, multi-Gigabit application switching with comprehensive Layer 2-7 service intelligence including

• Traffic classification
• Traffic and bandwidth capacity management
• Network-based IPS/DoS security
• Dynamic service selection

With Radware, operators gain the user, service and content awareness needed to manage, optimize and prioritize all Internet traffic to support IP service evolution and growth.

Carrier-grade Performance and Fault Tolerance

Radware’s carrier solutions enhance the network's ability to identify, classify and optimize IP service operations across the most demanding networking environments. These carrier solutions are built on top of carrier-grade, NEBS compliant, APSolute application and security switches.

The system is designed for 99.999% uptime, wire-speed throughput, up to 6 Gbps performance with 48 DC power supplies and support of fully redundant configurations for fault tolerance and immediate disaster recovery.

IP Service Challenges

Despite massive investments in data networking infrastructure, swelling volumes of IP traffic and growing numbers of subscribers, carrier networks remain unaware of users, services and content. The lack of traffic visibility across carrier data and control planes makes it impossible for operators to control the quality and reliability of IP-based services, differentiate between them, or create premium services to effectively support new Internet-based business models.

Wireline Solutions

OSS/BSS
Radware’s OSS/BSS solutions afford a fully integrated authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) availability suite to support broadband access and emerging on-demand services. With Radware, carriers can manage operations across all front-end and back-end high-touch AAA/subscriber data management services including DHCP, DNS, LDAP, RADIUS as well as next-generation HSS/Diameter and HLR/LDAP migration programs. By affording intelligent local and global load distribution, resource optimization and burst handling, Radware lets operators gain control over mission-critical AAA services.

In addition, by extending AAA service and infrastructure virtualization, Radware enables resource consolidation and scalability for operational cost savings and full support of fixed-mobile convergence. 

VoIP/SIP Front-End Solutions
Radware’s Application Front-End solutions deliver intelligent management of VoIP/SIP signaling and messaging to ensure the high-availability, scalability and security of SIP-aware network elements including soft switches, session initiation protocol (SIP) application servers and session border controllers (SBCs). With Radware, operators can guarantee the continuity of Voice over IP (VoIP) and other SIP-based multimedia services by extending intelligent local and global load distribution and resource optimization and burst handling, all essential to support highly trafficked SIP trunking and peering environments.

Affording full support of IP multimedia system (IMS) protocols and standards, Radware enables seamless, optimized migration to IMS frameworks.

Managed Security Services 
Radware’s Managed Security Services (MSS) lets wireline operators deliver managed security as a value-added service to subscribers for ARPU growth.

• Always On Clean Link Security lets carriers extend network-based, high-performance, customized and scalable managed IPS and DoS/DDoS for enterprise and online business customers. Employing advanced behavioral zero-minute, zero-touch, zero-false positives security technologies, Radware lowers operator total cost of ownership (TCO) to support managed security outsourcing models.
• Managed Content Security Delivery lets carriers extend, optimize and scale any best-of-breed managed content security inspection services to customers, including antivirus, anti-spam, URL filtering, web application forwarding and parental control.

DPI/DFI
Radware’s DPI/DFI solutions deliver ITC Layer 2-7 visibility and granular policy-based traffic control to support emerging premium Internet business models and introduce new network-based service capabilities.

• Network Security and Service Integrity utilizes advanced behavioral algorithms to mitigate even the most aggressive attacks, including zero-minute worms and service floods, for wire-speed service and infrastructure security, affording coarse-grain protection along with fine-grain security for business customer traffic, while enforcing traffic policies to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
• Traffic Control and Capacity Management is specifically for wholesalers. It enables granular bandwidth shaping and rate limiting across carrier ingress traffic, including aggressive peer-to-peer applications, providing new tools to ensure network in-net/off-net quality of service (QoS), maintain connectivity profit margins from international bandwidth and introduce new tiered bandwidth models, including service and usage-based plans that increase ARPU and profitability.
• Premium Internet Service Delivery provides the service intelligence needed to extend a new generation of premium content services, differentiating, protecting and growing operator hybrid Internet/walled garden business models, all the while controlling Internet freeware across the radio access network (RAN) (for mobile carriers) to ensure operational efficiency and eliminate service bottlenecks.

Mobile Solutions

With Radware, mobile operators gain granular, policy-based control over mobile Internet traffic, providing the tools needed to effectively open mobile networks to the Internet, for service growth and differentiation while protecting mobile operators’ revenue models.

Mobile Internet Optimization and Acceleration
Radware bridges the gap between wireline and wireless mobile networks enabling adapted, reliable and accelerated mobile Internet service delivery. By extending wireless profiled TCP (WPTCP) over the RAN, coupled with transport- and packet-level optimizations (reordering, MTU), clientless content compression and caching, Radware achieves up to 45% TCP transport acceleration and 1000x boosted media delivery speeds.

Overcoming IP service performance challenges across the RAN, Radware helps mobile operators drive widespread mobile Internet service adoption and growth in rich media content delivery across all mobile Internet devices.

Premium Mobile Internet Services
Radware lets carriers manage mobile premium Internet traffic by any user, service or content criteria. With Radware, mobile carriers can manage and bill users who consume bandwidth-hungry IP services and Internet content (e.g., Slingbox) to control RAN resource exploitation and effectively manage bandwidth for cost savings.

By identifying and provisioning services on-the-fly, Radware lets mobile operators extend premium, Internet/walled-garden services and support new usage-based models for ARPU growth and heightened service profitability.

Mobile Internet Security and Service Integrity
Multi-Gigabit network-based intrusion prevention and adaptive behavioral DoS/DDoS clean mobile networks from high-speed Internet access (HSIA-Gi/Pi networks) attack traffic, preventing emergent Internet-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile security threats.

Radware’s advanced, behavioral IPS and DoS/DDoS security extends zero-minute, zero-touch, zero-false positives detection, attack mitigation and bandwidth management (BWM) designed to identify misbehaving customers, thwart worm propagation and secure the mobile carrier core against threats.

Radware supports the implementation of multiple security strategies across Gi, Gn/Gp and PDSN/FA interfaces.