Stingray Service Gateway

This is a software solution that doesn’t depend on a particular server hardware supplier and can be flexibly adapted to business requirements.

Determining over 6000 protocols.

Support for the following operation modes: in-line, using routing asymmetry in outgoing traffic, and traffic mirroring mode.

Subscriber management with dynamic IP-addressing and with multiple IP addresses.

Possibility to scale the solution to provide traffic handling up to 4,6 Tbit/s.

Operation Modes

It is also possible to implement other operation modes. For more detailed information, please submit a request on our website.

In-line

In-line mode implies the platform to be connected between the border router and termination device (BNG/BRAS). Fault tolerance is provided by the bypass function supported by Silicom networking bypass adapters.

Asymmetrical Mode

Mode using routing asymmetry in outgoing traffic is used when facing challenges of filtering only web traffic based on policy-based routing.

Mirroring Mode

Traffic mirroring mode using SPAN ports or optical splitters.

Features

Independent software platform

Standard hardware powered by Intel Xeon is used as a hardware platform to install the Stingray SG. It makes ISP independent from a particular equipment supplier, helps to reduce the value of capital costs, and to scale flexibly the solution power depending on the business requirements.

Broad scope of application

The Stingray platform can be used by telecom operators, Internet service providers, marketing agencies, user behavior study centers, search engines, and contextual advertising services.

Large set of features

Besides traffic inspection and classification, the platform allows to implement additional functions:

Real time analytics
Сhannel allocation between subscribers and the total bandwidth management (QoS)
Informing subscribers, advertising
Protection against DDoS attacks.

Advanced technology of traffic analysis and filtration

Stingray platform parses all the packets passing through it up to the 7th level of the OSI model, instead of just using information about standard port numbers.

By performing behavioral (heuristic) traffic analysis, Stingray recognizes applications that do not use previously known headers and data structures to exchange data.

As an example the p2p (Bittorrent) protocol can be considered: a packet sequence analysis based on their similarities as well as a set of signatures matching to similar applications are used to identify traffic.

Specifications

Feature

SSG-6

SSG-40

SSG-80

SSG-120

SSG-240

SSG-360

PerfomanceGbps

6

40

80

120

240

360

Portspcs x GbE

2×10

6×10/4×25/4×40/2×100

12×10/6×25/6×40/4×100

20×10/8×25/8×40/4×100

16×25/8×100

10×100

Rack Units

1

2

Number of subscribers

3K

20K

40K

60K

120K

180K

Maximum number of sessionsessions

6M

40M

80M

120M

240M

360M

Number of new sessionssessions/sec

200K

800K

1300K

1500K

2000K

2500K

Latency (average value)microseconds (µs)

30

Licensing

Options

BNG

BASE

COMPLETE

Bypass, On-stick, LAG Support

Statistics by protocols and directions in IPFIX format collection and export

Traffic priority marking depending on the application protocol and direction

Channel policing and session policing, traffic priorities per channel

Subscriber channel policing and session policing, traffic priorities per subscriber

Allow Lists and redirecting to Captive Portal

BNG/BRAS L3 (IPoE), Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6, RADIUS with CoA

BNG/BRAS L2 (PPPoE, DHCP, L2TP), Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6

Router with BGP, OSPF, VRF support

Carrier Grade NAT with NAT Flow export in IPFIX format

Mini-Firewall for blocking by ports

Automatic protection against DDoS attacks

DNS requests control

Regulatory Compliance

BNG

BASE

COMPLETE

Filtering by blocked Internet sites and blacklisting

Lawful Interception (LI), metadata export by IPFIX

Additional modules and services

BNG

BASE

COMPLETE

URL Classifier Local version

URL Classifier Cloud version

Graphical User Interface Base version

GUI (Graphical User Interface) FilterUI version

Quality of Experience Module Base version

Quality of Experience Module Standard version

SDK — DPI Tool kit for protocols customization

Subscription

VAS Cloud custom protocols

Subscription

Standby

BNG

BASE

COMPLETE

Active-Standby: the stand-by SSG is installed on an alternative route, passing no more than 5% of traffic in standby mode

25% from Main License and Support License

Active-Active: traffic is shared between two SSG platforms

100% from Main License and Support License

Yes

Optional

No

Useful materials

Stingray Service Gateway Overview

Solution architecture and functions description

Stingray Service Gateway — Datasheet

Specifications, installation schemes, and minimum requirements

GUI Overview

In this video we look at all the main sections of the graphical user interface for managing the SSG platform.

Customer Reviews

"VAS Experts technical specialists have a very high training level. They know the specifics of our market and do everything to make our collaborative work effective. This partnership gives us the opportunity to expand our product line, offer local providers comprehensive carrier-grade solutions, and build the core of the Next Generation network."

Paulo Mielnichuk

Managing Partner of ZTech

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We used to have SCE, CGN. Now we have two “boxes” that can reduce all processes to a minimum set of actions. Thanks to VAS Experts engineers for providing fast and dynamic work.

Roman Chuchuk

X-COM Deputy Director

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The cost of Stingray solution is lower than the new devices and the deployment was very fast. We didn’t face any problems while configuring. We are planning to expand the network next year, whereas the positive results of the VAS Experts software implementation leave no doubt that the DPI, BNG and CG-NAT manufacturer replacement is not needed.

Andrian Wisniewski

StarNet system administrator

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"I can definitely say that it is extremely difficult to find a more flexible and effective telecom solution, and in combination with attentive customer support, it’s probably impossible."

Alexander Ulybin

Technical Director at GhoFi (RSS Cyprus LTD)

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Success stories

Cable Norte: Optimizing network performance with Stingray Service Gateway

Stingray SG and Height8 billing system integration on ISP’s network

Stingray SG — Experience of Internet provider Unet.by

Providing Internet Access in Latin America — Yota de Nicaragua case

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We will contact you, specify the task, provide access to the documentation and answer your questions.

We discuss the current situation: traffic volume, available equipment, the functionality you need.

Our engineers install the selected software and adapt it to your specific tasks. Сontract — only after the test is successful.

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Operation Modes

In-line

Asymmetrical Mode

Mirroring Mode