Allot and XACCT to Offer Comprehensive QoS Solutions; Strategic Alliance Enables Next-Generation Service Providers to Deliver IP Provisioning and Service Level Agreements.Business Editors 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--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2000 The strategic marketing and technology agreement announced today by 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 pioneer in policy-based networking solutions, and XACCT Technologies, the leading supplier of intelligent business infrastructure solutions for IP networks, will provide an integrated, comprehensive system that offers Quality of Service (QoS) and usage-based billing services to IP service providers. The solution, which will also enable such services as IP provisioning, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), tiered services, accounting, and self-provisioning, will integrate XACCT's XACCTusage(TM) Intelligent Business Infrastructure Platform and Allot's NetEnforcer(TM) / NetPolicy(TM) -- policy-based bandwidth enforcement and management for QoS. The end result for IP providers is a complete service offering that provides increased provisioning control, more options, and improved customer service. "We are very pleased to be partnering with XACCT," said Azi Ronen, Allot's vice president of marketing. "Together, we can provide a full, policy-based, SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. management solution to service providers, including bandwidth management Controlling the traffic flow in a network. See bandwidth manager. , enforcement of QoS, automatic customer information provisioning, IP session-level billing, and virtual bandwidth management. Additionally, this partnership gives us the opportunity to significantly increase our customer base." "Allot's policy-based usage, enforcement, and bandwidth management tools are a superb fit with our business infrastructure software," said Anil Uberoi, vice president of marketing for XACCT Technologies. "Together we will provide a complete management, SLA provisioning, and enforcement system. Service providers are certain to benefit from our solution, as these additional features and functionality will seamlessly integrate with their existing customer care and billing systems and enable them to provide revenue-generating, quality-based service to their customers." About the Allot QoS Solutions -- NetEnforcer and NetPolicy Allot's NetEnforcer 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 percent availability and redundancy. In addition, Allot's network management product, NetPolicy(TM), enables network-wide, policy-based customization, provisioning, and monitoring of the NetEnforcers. The products allow secured self-provisioning and monitoring by the customer, eliminating the need for on-site provisioning equipment through a service capability called the Virtual Bandwidth Manager Software that can prioritize communications by allowing high-priority traffic to use more available bandwidth in the network than lower-priority data. For example, real time video can be given more bandwidth than file transfers. . About the XACCTusage Platform XACCTusage provides a single point of interface between Internet back-office operations and business support systems and the physical network. The platform is a multi-source, multi-layer network usage metering and mediation solution that gives Network Service Providers (NSPs), including enterprise network (Intranet) operators, the capability to right-price IP services. XACCTusage is designed to allow service providers to generate accurate usage-based billing and to implement utilization-based charge-back models for network services and applications. XACCTusage transforms raw transaction data from a multitude of network devices into useful billing records through business-policy-based filtering, aggregation, and merging. The result is a set of eXtensible Detail Records (XDRs(TM)), similar in concept to the telephony industry's Call Detail Records (CDRs). About Allot Communications Allot Communications, founded in 1996, develops, manufactures, and markets policy-based networking solutions. Allot is dedicated to a structured, policy-based approach to ensure quality and availability of network services, resources, and applications. The company's products improve performance and ensure the quality of mission-critical and time-sensitive applications running on IP networks. 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 the publication's 1999 "Hot Product of the Year" award. Allot Communications has offices in Tel Aviv, 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; London, UK; 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 OEMs, distributors, and direct channels. For more information about Allot Communications, visit the company at www.allot.com or send e-mail to sales@allot.com. About XACCT Technologies Headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. , XACCT Technologies develops business infrastructure software that enables service providers to design and execute innovative, revenue-generating programs and services. XACCT markets its software directly and through network systems integrators to service providers and Fortune 1000 companies. A privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation , XACCT is funded by venture capital investors. More information is available at www.xacct.com. XACCTusage and XDR (1) (EXternal Data Representation) A data format developed by Sun that is part of its networking standards. It deals with integer size, byte ordering, data representation, etc. and is used as an interchange format. are trademarks of XACCT Technologies, Inc. NetEnforcer and NetPolicy are trademarks of Allot Communications. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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