Allot and TeleKnowledge Join Forces To Offer Comprehensive Service Level Management and QoS-based Billing Solution.Business/Technology Editors BURLINGAME, Calif., and FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 Integrated Offering Enables Service Providers To Deliver Value-Added IP Services Based On Innovative Pricing Plans Tied To Service Level Agreements Allot al·lot tr.v. al·lot·ted, al·lot·ting, al·lots 1. To parcel out; distribute or apportion: allotting land to homesteaders; allot blame. 2. Communications, a leading provider of policy-based networking solutions, and TeleKnowledge, a developer of value-based billing and customer care solutions for broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. and content providers, announced today a strategic marketing and technology agreement. TeleKnowledge and Allot's integrated product will allow customers to pay for the actual quality of services they agreed to. As a result of this agreement, service providers will be able to measure relevant network usage, evaluate customer-specific service agreement information and bill customers based on the quality of IP services actually delivered. Teleknowledge's Total-e(TM) brings the benefit of value-based billing to the integration, while Allot delivers capabilities for enforcing Quality of Service agreements. "We are very pleased to be working with TeleKnowledge," stated Azi Ronen, Allot's Vice President of Marketing. "Together, we are able to provide a full service level management solution, including enforcement of quality of service, and customer care and billing. Service providers are certain to benefit from our ability to offer these key quality-based services to their customers." Allot's NetEnforcer(TM) gives users the power to intelligently shape bandwidth and deliver system-wide service level guarantees based on the needs and priorities of the customer. Allot's hardware-based bypass technology ensures 100% availability and redundancy. In addition, Allot's policy-based network management product, NetPolicy(TM) enables network-wide policy-based, customization, provisioning and monitoring of the NetEnforcers. Using its LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. interface, the NetPolicy will be fed user information via the TeleKnowledge billing and customer care (BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) The field in an e-mail header that names additional recipients for the message. It is similar to carbon copy (cc), but the names do not appear in the recipient's message. Not all e-mail systems support the bcc feature. See fcc. ) interface. Using a RADIUS(tm) interface, the NetEnforcer will feed the TeleKnowledge BCC accounting information, enabling it to perform billing functions at the IP session level. Through a single intuitive user interface, customers are able to track service levels and bill customers accordingly. "Accommodating varying service levels is key to creating value-based service offerings, and building long term relationships with customers," stated Raanan Peleg, TeleKnowledge Vice President and General Manager, Europe. "By combining the two companies offerings, service providers will be well equipped to seamlessly offer quality of service along with customer care and billing capabilities needed to keep up with the changing service needs of customers." TeleKnowledge's Total-e is the first value-based billing, customer care software solution specifically designed to meet the emerging business infrastructure needs of broadband and content service providers, including next generation ISPs. Total-e empowers providers to realize the vast commercial potential of next-generation IP networks by creating, selling and billing for Any Service, Any Time(TM) with unprecedented speed and flexibility. Total-e also enables providers to manage an unlimited number of complex revenue-based relationships between online content providers such as Web portals, syndicators, online advertisers and e-commerce merchants. It provides extensive capabilities to capture the business rules governing each unique relationship, monitor events such as impressions, click-throughs and e-commerce transactions relevant to the settlement of payments, and proactively manage the profitability of each and every ePartnership. As part of the joint marketing agreement, the two companies will engage in cooperative marketing and promotional activities including: tradeshows, press releases, web presence and joint selling. About Allot Communications Allot Communications was founded in 1996 to solve network performance problems through traffic shaping Using methods to keep traffic flowing smoothly in a network. Although the term is often used synonymously with "traffic engineering," traffic shaping deals with managing the network moment to moment, whereas traffic engineering refers to the overall strategies employed in a network. , server load-balancing, IP accounting, cache redirection and integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. management. In 1998 Allot was recognized by Data Communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. as a "Top 25 Hot Startup" and earned a 1999 "Hot Product of the Year" award. Allot's newest IP prioritization product, the NetEnforcer 301, recently received MIER MIER Malaysian Institute of Economic Research Communication's "Networks As Advertised" (NAA NAA Nomina Anatomica Avium. ) Award for its superb performance. Allot Communications develops, manufactures and markets policy-based networking solutions. In an era of increasing network chaos and bandwidth hungry applications, there is a need for products that handle network traffic according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. its importance to corporate or service provider goals. Rather than simply continuing to increase network bandwidth, Allot's products provide a more structured policy-based approach to ensuring the quality and availability of network services, resources and applications. Consequently, they improve the performance and ensure the quality of mission critical and time-sensitive applications running on IP networks. Allot Communications has offices in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel; Sophia Antipolis Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970~84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. , France; Tokyo, Japan; Randers, Denmark; Munchen, Germany; New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New York; Norcross, Georgia Norcross is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. The city had a population of 8,410 in 2000. Census Estimates for 2005 show a population of 9,887. History Norcross was founded in 1866 by John Thrasher. and Burlingame, California Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County, California, which is the second wealthiest county in the state, as well as the fourteenth richest in the country. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula and has a significant shoreline on San Francisco Bay. . The company sells and markets its products worldwide through OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and , distributors and direct channels. For more information about Allot Communications, please visit us on the web at www.allot.com or email: sales@allot.com. About TeleKnowledge Founded in 1997, TeleKnowledge develops and markets value-based billing software solutions for broadband service and content providers. The company's flagship product, Total-e is designed to enable providers to seamlessly create and deploy value-added offerings as well as manage revenue exchanges and payments between content-based trading partners. TeleKnowledge helps providers to increase revenue and profits by introducing dynamic revenue-optimizing services and content tightly linked to customers' value perceptions. The company is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts with offices in Israel and throughout Europe. For more information about the company visit www.teleknowledge.com. NetEnforcer(TM), NetPolicy(TM) and RADIUS(TM) are registered trademarks of Allot Communications. Total-e(tm) and Any Service, Any Time(tm) are registered trademarks of TeleKnowledge. |
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