Traffic filtering for carriers
Purpose of traffic filtering
To prevent crimes, counteract terrorism and disallow illegal content spread, many governments oblige telecom operators to filter content for end-users. Blocking of such resources aims to protect the country in its social, financial, and governmental assets.
Exact requirements vary between countries, so this is why Stingray SG is the best compliance solution. It has all the necessary functionality for a flexible and precise setup for your specific needs.
With Stingray SG you can filter traffic the ways to fully comply with the regulatory requirements, as well as to completely protect end-users from prohibited Internet resources.
Service description
With Stingray Service Gateway you can confidently control customers’ access to network resources.
Illegal content includes resources related to terrorism, cruelty, drug use, racial intolerance, pornography, intimate services and shops, online casinos, the spread of malicious software, etc. The safety of Internet users and regulatory compliance is ensured by the options of lawful interception and blocking of dangerous resources.
Stingray Service Gateway is the flexible and reliable solution that meets the law requirements and allows telecom operators to simply and effectively restrict user access to black-listed resources.
Benefits
up to 4 billion URLs with a compact representation in the memory
performance up to 100 Gbps in the Stingray Base version
< 30 µs for request processing on 1U server
100% block of resources
automated blocking of malicious and illegal content
monitoring, blockage, or limitation of the selected type of traffic with no effect on network performance
Features
Automated download of regulator registers of resources from cloud service
Blocklists are updated automatically. It guarantees the relevance of the information and 100% compliance with all requirements of a government regulator. Resources are blocked and unblocked automatically and without delays.
Simple introduction and flexible scalability
Installation is possible on any standard x86-server with Centos OS, and performance depends only on the capacity of the equipment and type of license. System configuration is carried out with a command line or convenient web interface and requires no input after being introduced.
No adverse effect on user traffic
Traffic is filtered only if the requested resource is block-listed.
Content Filtering with Categories Support
A daily update of the categories list makes it possible to enforce the law for operators who provide services for schools and other educational institutions. Guaranteed 100% blocking of prohibited content for children.
Performance Specifications
- Filtering by the carrier’s own list.
- Filtering of traffic from proxy-servers and mobile devices (iOS, Android etc).
- Setting of redirecting to the carrier’s page for the blocked URL (for http).
- Filtering of URL with Cyrillic symbols and hieroglyphs.
- Blocking of HTTPS traffic by Common Name certificates.
- Blocking of HTTP traffic on non-standard ports.
- Control over filtering by specific users.
- Server Name Indication (SNI) support.
VAS Experts products allow
Create new services for your subscribers
Improve QoS and QoE
Increase subscriber loyalty
Comply to the requirements of state regulators for URL filtration
Analyze the network traffic
Optimize usage of the network resources
Protect web resources from DDoS attacks
Use CG-NAT, BNG and IPv6 support