Stingray Service Gateway

The Stingray Service Gateway is a multifunctional platform based on Deep Packet Inspection technology. It is designed to inspect, classify and process packets according to the tasks of the ISP.
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 3.84 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.

in line scheme

Asymmetrical Mode

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

Mirroring Mode

Traffic mirroring mode using SPAN ports or optical splitters.
mirror scheme

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 DOS and 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 10
SSG 20
SSG 40
SSG 80
SSG 100
SSG 120
PerfomanceGbps
6
10
20
40
80
100
120
Portspcs x GbE
2×10
2×10
4×10
6×10/4×25/4×40
12×10/6×25/6×40/4×100
20×10/8×25/8×40/4×100
20×10/8×25/8×40/6×100
Rack Units
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
Number of subscribers
400К
16М
32М
Maximum number of sessionsessions
4M
8M
16M
32M
64M
128M
256M
Number of new sessionssessions/sec
100К
250K
500K
1000K
2000K
2500K
5000K
Latency (average value)microseconds (µs)
30
30
30
30
30
30
30

Licensing

Options
BASE
BNG
COMPLETE
Bypass
Statistics gathering and analysis on protocols and directions
Traffic prioritization depending on protocols and directions
Common and virtual channel policing
Subscriber notification and marketing campaigns
Subscriber channel policing for IPv4 and IPv6
Allow Lists and Captive Portal
BNG L3 (IPoE), Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6, Radius with CoA
BNG L2 (PPPoE, DHCP), Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6
Router with BGP, OSPF, IS-IS support
Carrier-Grade NAT
Ads blocking and replacing
Mini-Firewall for blocking on certain ports
Protection against DOS and DDOS attacks
Regulatory Compliance
BASE
BNG
COMPLETE
Filtering by the blocklisted Internet sites
Lawful interception (LI)
Additional modules and services
BASE
BNG
COMPLETE
URL Classifier Local version
URL Classifier Cloud version
Graphical User Interface Base version
Graphical User Interface Global version
Quality of Experience Module Base version
Quality of Experience Module Standard version
Adding banners to HTTP resorses
Subscription
Signatures SDK
Subscription
Extended signatures packs
Subscription
Reserve License
BASE
BNG
COMPLETE
Stand by License
25% from main License
Yes
Optional
No

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."
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.
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.
"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."

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