Leading provider of network and subscriber intelligence for mobile operators, Astellia unveils Flex, an intelligent traffic load balancer for flexible user plane monitoring and troubleshooting.
Astellia said that Flex was developed as a response to operators' needs for more flexible, scalable and future-proof monitoring solutions. Flex is an important milestone in Astellia’s next generation monitoring solution towards NFV/SDN. Flex is available as software, running on Commercial-Of-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware, reducing hardware footprint by 40%. Flex intelligently load balances traffic across different soft probes to ensure monitoring stability.
In order to reduce user plane monitoring costs and improve scalability, Flex can target user plane traffic based on criteria such as IMSI, mobile app, APName, QCI, geographical areas, handset and IP address while still generating QoS information (throughput & volume) for every subscriber, added the company.
Cedric Arnaud-Battandier, Chief Marketing Officer at Astellia
User plane analysis is valuable and important for operators to understand network usage and customer experience. Flex allows them to control their UP monitoring budget by selecting full or on-demand DPI analysis and invest as they grow.