Frost & Sullivan Confers New Product Innovation Award on Vedicis for its Open Traffic Management Software Platform. Innovative broadband traffic management solution supports comprehensive traffic analysis and control.
September 13th, 2012 | London, UK:
Based on its recent analysis of the broadband traffic management market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Vedicis with the 2012 Europe Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation. Vedicis is commended for its Open Traffic Management Software Platform, a holistic broadband traffic management solution. The platform leverages Deep Packet Intelligence (DPI) and policy enforcement technology to provide granular content detection, analysis and real-time bandwidth control.
“The innovativeness of this solution lies in the level of granularity it offers,” notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Charanya Balasubramanian. “The solution is equipped to present information on various facets for each subscriber and perform granular analysis beyond detection of protocols and packets and deliver unique capabilities to measure and steer real-time bandwidth per user for million simultaneous users.”
While conventional traffic management vendors utilize network processors to switch traffic at high speeds, the software-based solution from Vedicis utilizes stand-alone servers and processing units to manage complex policies with rich content and controls bandwidth in real-time.
“This software-based engine can identify varied types of content including URL, media, group of IPs, subnets, users and applications,” adds Balasubramanian. “Adding visibility to components monitored in the network traffic, the engine also provides flexible selection criteria to forward, copy, block or filter content based on the load in the network in real-time.”
The Open Traffic Management platform offers precise metering options for varied traffic types for each subscriber. Vedicis also monitors and meters traffic for background activities such as updates for smartphone applications for each subscriber.
In addition, Vedicis implements tiered services. Data usage-based billing, creation and enforcement of customized data packages, provision of bandwidth access and control, charging for specific application, volume quota and bandwidth restrictions at peak time are some of the features offered as a part of the tiered services.
“Operators can utilize commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware to incorporate Vedicis Traffic Management Solution into their systems,” remarks Balasubramanian. “This software-based approach offers cost benefits to the user in terms of reduced capital and operational expenditure as costs associated with hardware procurement and maintenance are significantly reduced.”
The platform empowers operators to develop new services to address changing subscriber needs. Furthermore, operators have the freedom to explore new business models to maximise revenues by increasing the average revenue per user (ARPU). This innovative solution enables operators build a strong business case in a highly competitive environment where innovation and quality of service (QoS) are keys to competitive success.
Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated excellence in developing a product with innovative elements that leverages leading edge technologies, that offers valued added features and benefits, supports increased customer ROI and has the potential for enhanced customer acquisition/penetration.
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About Vedicis
Vedicis provides Policy Control & Enforcement and Network Traffic Intelligence Solutions to fixed and mobile operators to manage and monetize broadband bandwidth for better user experience and new revenue streams.
Vedicis innovative DPI-Policy Enforcement software platform helps customers to solve data congestion issues with better QoS and QoE, and create new services with real time bandwidth control for users and applications depending on service entitlement. We focus on delivering visibility (granular statistics) intelligence (usage metering for postpaid and prepaid charging) and control (applications bandwidth enforcement per user, and smart routing to VAS) with rapid ROI, scalability and fast integration.
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Vedicis demonstrates Mobile Policy Enforcement in catalyst project at Management World 2012
Project championed by Orange and Swisscom will show the new targeted architecture to control and charge high volume mobile data
World Management | May 21, 2012 | Dublin, Ireland:
Vedicis announces today it participates to a TM Forum Catalyst project at Management World 2012, to demonstrate how growing mobile internet data traffic can be efficiently controlled and monetized.
The catalyst projects are the living labs of the TMF. Member companies, including ISPs, Mobile Network Operators, MSOs, System Integrators and telecom suppliers work together in a collaborative environment with emerging technologies and capabilities to solve some of the most pressing operational and interoperability issues.
Today Network Operators have deep concerns with charging performance following data explosion on 2G, 3G, LTE and Wi-Fi networks. The "Real Time Charging for High Volume Mobile Data" Catalyst project introduces a highly scalable and efficient solution to address this issue.
This policy control and charging solution support the 3GPP standards and delivers
- Scalability with resource requirements for charging divided by 100,
- Performance for policy control and enforcement to manage million users and multi 10 GB traffic.
This catalyst project is championed by Orange and Swisscom, and presents a new reference architecture with the contribution of Capgemini, DigitalRoute and Matrixx Software. It offers new opportunities for carriers to reduce OPEX, monetize broadband with tiered services, and create interactive customer experience.
The project is presented in the TM Forum’s Forumville area at Management World 2012 in Dublin, Ireland on May 21-24th 2012.
Project description on TMF website: here.
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Vedicis and FTS to deliver joint Policy Control & Charging Solution
PCC solution enables operators to manage data explosion, monetize data services in real-time and improve customer experience
Broadband Traffic Management Congress | November 15, 2011 | London, UK:
FTS, a global provider of billing, customer care and policy control solutions for communications and content service providers, and Vedicis, the leading software editor in broadband DPI and policy enforcement solutions, announced today that they are partnering to deliver a complete Policy Control & Charging (PCC) solution.
Vedicis will provide its policy enforcement (PCEF) solution, whilst FTS will deliver its Leap™ Policy Control, an online/offline charging and PCRF solution. The combined solution will be an integrated end-to-end Policy Control & Charging offering for mobile and fixed line operators.
As data usage continues to rise service providers’ marketing departments are being pushed to come up with innovative pricing plans that can be implemented quickly to help manage data volumes, whilst simultaneously increasing revenues and improving the customer experience. The combined FTS and Vedicis PCC solution enables the billing and network departments to keep up to speed with marketing requests, with pre-integrated charging, policy management and enforcement and subscribers’ data. Dynamic policies can be implemented to correctly identify and classify content such as over the top applications (OTT), video or gaming, ensuring that the data is correctly handled, prioritized and charged for.
The new partnership provides a single PCC solution: operators purchase a pre-integrated package that offers simplicity, fast integration, deployment and operational set-up, along with cost advantages when compared to integrating separate PCEF, PCRF and charging solutions. As a result, operators gain a competitive edge with fast, simple implementation of new services and improved ROI.
“This is a great partnership for FTS. We have always worked hard to help marketing teams launch new services quickly, without back-office being a bottleneck, and integration with Vedicis will add further simplicity and fast deployment capabilities,” said Amos Sivan, CEO, FTS. “This combined PCC offering will enable operators to better respond to the choices their customers make with personalized packages."
“The combination of FTS’ Leap Policy Control and our Vedicis Policy Enforcement solution presents an exciting new offering for fixed and mobile operators,” said Théodore Martin Martin, Vedicis CEO. “At Vedicis, we focus on delivering flexible and efficient open traffic management solutions to speed new service implementation and control IP data growth. Together, FTS and Vedicis can now help carriers combine policy enforcement, the policy rules engine, real-time usage-based charging and the subscribers’ data to create differentiated services quickly and simply.”
The joint Policy Control & Charging Solution from Vedicis and FTS will be able to help operators resolve a number of issues that are currently affecting the sector, including:
- Enabling innovative cross-selling plans – an example of which may be to provide quota-based credits for the data used on premium services
- Traffic Management – the PCC solution can implement dynamic policy rules for bandwidth fair usage and congestion mitigation according to the user's profile, his financial status, the network status or even the roaming status
- Providing tiered services – such as offering pricing packages based on a choice of access speed, download/upload quotas, QoS prioritization, applications, devices, location or time of day/week according to the consumer’s preference
Both FTS and Vedicis will be participating at the Global Broadband Traffic Management conference in London (15th-17th November 2011). Vedicis will be discussing the latest business cases for Traffic Management Solutions to ensure operators have full flexibility for their initiatives (15:15pm, 17th November) and FTS will be participating in a panel discussion on Policy 2.0 enabled services and how they can deliver incremental revenues for operators (12:40pm, 16th November).
To book a meeting with Vedicis, please contact marketing@vedicis.com
To book a meeting with FTS, please contact meetings@fts-soft.com
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Vedicis unveils its new software platform for end-to-end Policy Control & Charging solutions
Paris, 27th September 2011:
Vedicis, the leading software editor in broadband DPI and Policy Enforcement solution, announces today the release of its new Open Traffic Management Software platform. Built upon its DPI-PCEF solution, this new platform is designed for vendors and telecom system integrators who intend to propose a full end-to-end Policy Control & Charging solution to Mobile and Fixed operators.
Policy Control and real time usage-based charging are now critical for carriers to cope with data traffic explosion, either to limit congestion, or to monetize new broadband usages. However, integration complexity, platforms heterogeneity and costs prevent rapid adoption or effective deployment. To take up these challenges, the Vedicis Open Traffic Management Software platform delivers:
- advanced PCEF features with Applications/protocols/content and user control with bandwidth steering, and volume metering,
- standard APIs (for instance 3GPP compliant for mobile environment)
- linux environment with open APIs for partner components hosting
- in a full software package aimed at deployment on Intel based systems (Blades or 2U servers) and ATCA hardware.
Policy management (PCRF) and charging/billing vendors can seamlessly integrate the Vedicis product in their solution and present to their customers a complete vertical solution to create and operate services differentiation. With a close integration and an effective enforcement of all policies, policy management vendors lower projects complexities and dependencies while improving performances and features, like real time bandwidth control per user. Charging/billing vendors have access to a new level of traffic metering accuracy with on-demand advanced CDR (for offline charging) or call flows (for online charging) by events, that offload charging engine from useless information.
“Our first deployments and the growing number of Policy Control & Charging projects have shown that carriers do require streamline solutions with low touch integration. By integrating our solution in their functional scope right in their product architecture, policy management and charging vendors accelerate projects and improve ROI for their customers,” says Théodore Martin Martin, Vedicis CEO.
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VEDICIS JOINS NETWORK INTELLIGENCE ALLIANCE TO DRIVE INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP FOR NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK SOLUTIONS
Participation in new industry organization will create opportunities to collaborate with other technology providers supporting the Network Economy and better serve customers with solutions based on Network Intelligence technology.
5th September 2011:
Vedicis, a leading provider of price/performance DPI-PCEF solutions for carriers today announced that it has become a member of the Network Intelligence Alliance (NI Alliance), an industry organization created for collaboration among the Network Economy’s technology providers. Participation in the NI Alliance will help Vedicis to build and market innovative solutions for customers seeking to improve policy control and charging enforcement features.
In today’s Network Economy—a world that now depends and runs on networks—accurate visibility and precise tracking of data crossing networks have become crucial to the availability, performance and security of applications and services. The growing complexity of IP transactions, the explosion of mobile applications, and the mainstream adoption of cloud computing surpass the capabilities of conventional tools to improve how networks operate, expand services and police illicit or criminal activity. Just like Business Intelligence solutions emerged to unlock information hidden in the enterprise, Network Intelligence technology is an emerging category of technology to reveal the critical details of the data locked inside network traffic and transactions.
The NI Alliance serves two purposes: first, as a forum for collaboration among technology providers whose solutions secure data in transit, ensure efficient data delivery, monetize data transactions or track real-time information. Through the NI Alliance, members can better serve their customers.
The NI Alliance also seeks to educate the market and the public on the role and value of Network Intelligence in protecting sensitive information; delivering value-added services, applications and information; and ensuring better performance of network-dependent solutions.
Vedicis includes Network Intelligence within its Policy and Charging Enforcement Solution to deliver full visibility on broadband traffic. Vedicis Linux platform empowers Mobile and Fixed Carriers to better manage network congestion, move to usage-based billing models, and create new tiered services through smart routing.
―The NI Alliance is the right ecosystem to foster state of the art technology such as ours in a rapidly-changing market,‖ said Théodore Martin Martin, Vedicis CEO. ―Our product, the Vedicis Content Smart Switch, is a DPI-PCEF software platform used to control multi-1GE or multi-10GE traffic with high switching performance and density on Intel Standard Servers. We deliver cost effectiveness and short ROI with scalability, flexibility and fast integration for broadband control and monetization. This requires deep Network Intelligence to meet carriers’ demands.
―Vedicis is a valuable addition to the NI Alliance and we welcome their participation,‖ said Erik Larsson, Chairman of the NI Alliance. ―By joining the NI Alliance, Vedicis increases its commitment to customers with
greater capabilities to identify, develop and support innovative, more comprehensive solutions based on Network Intelligence.‖
Establishment of the NI Alliance was initiated by Qosmos, whose Network Intelligence technology components provide the crucial first step in understanding what’s passing through networks. Qosmos’ hardware and software components extract and interpret real-time traffic—translating a data stream’s 1s and 0s into their respective communications protocols, metadata and content for use by third-party applications.
Through the NI Alliance, Qosmos expands its collaborative approach to help vendors design and deliver advanced solutions with embedded Network Intelligence technology in less time and at lower cost. The NI Alliance provides a channel for dialogue and partnerships that Alliance Members otherwise may not have considered or pursued when addressing the needs of joint customers. Visibility within the vendor community through the NI Alliance affords companies opportunities to market more comprehensive solutions with greater ROI and faster time to value for customers.
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First win in APAC for policy control and tethering monetization.
Paris, 1st June 2011:
Vedicis announces that a major APAC mobile operator has selected Vedicis Policy Control & Enforcement Solution for tethering monetization and congestion relief.
Mobile users demonstrate a very fast adoption of internet broadband, and new smartphone usage is extremely popular. Among them, “mobile hot spot usage” aka “tethering” when smartphone is used as a modem is now a growing concern for mobile carriers.
Issues are two-fold:
- Tethering usage heavily contributes to congest the network with a high degradation of Quality of Experience for all subscribers at peak times. With tethering, many devices (PCs/Tablets) and many users may access to mobile network through a single smartphone which may consume more than 10 times the bandwidth of any other smartphone, especially with PC applications (like peer-to-peer, ftp, OTT videos) that are not optimized for mobile device communication.
- From a business standpoint, mobile operators offer specific tethering service packages. However they are rarely subscribed as operators control are easily bypassed. This represents an important revenue leakage, while bandwidth and services are intensively used.
Vedicis Policy Control & Enforcement Solution provides user bandwidth monitoring, clear identification of tethering usage to be compared on the fly with their subscription packages, and inline actions for control (either bandwidth limitation for users without relevant data packages or alerts sent to SMS systems to propose directly a package upgrade).
“Our solution, with precise usage detection at high speed that avoid false positive, combined with a short ROI, gives a unique advantage to mobile operators to monetize tethering and limit congestion in the network.” comments Theodore Martin Martin, Vedicis CEO.
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Vedicis launches its new DPI-PCEF solution with policy control and enforcement for Telecom Carriers.
Paris, 27th April 2011:
Vedicis announces the launch of its policy and charging enforcement solution for Mobile and fixed telecom operators. This software DPI – PCEF delivers policy control for user profile enforcement and real time charging to create usage-based service billing.
As flat-rate pricing for data is no more sustainable because of traffic explosion, it is now mandatory for operators to create tiered services based upon real services valued by their subscribers (Facebook, Internet browsing, gaming…). Vedicis Content Policy & Charging Enforcer identifies user traffic type and applications, enforces usage policies (access to services, bandwidth limitations…) from the policy server and trigger real time charging from the charging solution (quota, top-up offer…).
“Today, policy control and enforcement are key to monetize broadband traffic management, especially for Mobile Operators. Concurrently, PCRF vendors and specialists for online charging are willing to interface with a flexible and high-performance PCEF solution. Our software DPI-PCEF solution delivers both flexibility for rapid integration and scalability to implement user SLA control”, said Theodore Martin Martin, Vedicis CEO. “With this new solution, we provide to both fixed and mobile carriers a very cost-effective PCEF to start now to deploy new data service package and benefit from the subscribers appetite for tailored Internet experience”.
Vedicis software DPI-PCEF solution comes with a traffic based, linear pricing and is packaged with API and plugins, either customized or compatible with 3GPP standards for smooth integration within carriers environment.
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Vedicis CEO Theodore Martin Martin explains the importance for service providers of managing traffic at fixed and mobile peering points.
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Win in Eastern Europe highlights the importance of traffic management to mitigate congestion issues.
7th July 2010:
Vedicis announces a new deployment in Eastern Europe for a broadband operator. Its software Content Smart Switch delivers content and application steering to favor QoS and improve QoE. The software flexibility in addition to a superior price performance ratio has been key to respond to operator’s needs to manage network traffic and limit congestions with a proven ROI.
Vedicis raises 2 M€ with Innovacom to deliver to telecom operators its advanced content analysis and control solution for smart pipes.
Paris, 20th January 2010:
Vedicis SAS, a telecom provider in IP broadband solutions to value content and create smart pipes with new services for fixed and mobile telecom carriers, today announced it has raised €2 million in an investment round led by Innovacom.
This round of funding is instrumental in building its international sales and marketing infrastructure, in consolidating its product development as well as establishing a leadership position in the intelligent broadband services arena. The new investment will contribute, among other activities, to bring to the market its current product and service offerings, while developing new services empowering telecom operators to create and deploy innovative applications based on their smart pipes.
“We are pleased to close this investment round now that poises Vedicis as a new major actor for intelligent traffic management and broadband services creation. Vedicis team is demonstrating its ability to design key applications to develop telecom operators value for web services and subscribers”, said Theodore Martin Martin, Vedicis CEO. “With this new investment, we will grow our customer base among fix and mobile operators. Application classification and prioritization and new premium subscription models are the new challenges that operators will take up with Vedicis.”
For over the last twenty years, Innovacom has supported the launch of innovative telecommunication and information technology projects. With a solid background in international deployments and networking, Innovacom is uniquely positioned to assist start-up companies not only with capitals but as well as with commercial and partnership opportunities worldwide, with tier-1 actors in the domain.
“The market of advanced content analysis and control to create smart pipes for telecom carriers is a key market today for the telecommunication industry as a whole to generate additional revenue beyond just simple bandwidth and network speed” Said Denis Barrier ,
Innovacom General Partner. “With its Content Smart Switch platform and a team with a proven track record, Vedicis has the capability to take advantage of this growing and strategic market” Barrier added.
Pinot de Villechenon & Associés advised Innovacom and Vedicis on this funding.
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