As the demand for network based services sore to unprecedented heights, network service providers are under the pressure to deliver maximum network performance with minimum budgets. Understandably, many of the new discoveries in the field of telecommunication have focused on minimizing the network costs and maiming the benefits available. This includes the announcement of a new software version for the Allot Service Gateway (News - Alert) Sigma (SG-Sigma) from Allot Communications.

The SG-Sigma is designed to enable network operators to generate additional revenue streams and increase subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE) with 40 Gbps of throughput and fully attuned to 3G and 4G/LTE (News - Alert) networks. The SG-Sigma is a DPI-based Service Gateway platform designed specifically for mobile and next generation networks.

Looking to increase core competencies to offer mobile, fixed and converged network service providers a more robust and resilient platform with superior performance, steering and traffic capabilities, the improved version of SG-Sigma provides an advanced technology software toolkit for the users. According to the tests conducted in December 2009 by the Tolly Group, a single fully loaded SG-Sigma can deliver throughput of over 75 Gbps with less than 16 microsecond latency.

“We believe that these improved competencies position the Allot (News - Alert) Service Gateway Sigma as the most advanced platform available today in terms of throughput, accuracy and traffic steering capabilities,' explained Andrei Elefant, Allot's VP of product management and marketing, in a release. 'In addition to the wide range of revenue generating network and subscriber services such as WebSafe, MediaSwift and ServiceProtector, these capabilities reinforce the SG-Sigma as today's operator platform of choice.”

The tests by Tolly Group have also proved SG-Sigma's ability to identify 100 percent of asymmetric traffic across a clustered configuration. They have also proved the company’s ability to steer traffic at over 40 Gbps to both internal and external services with zero packet loss.

Allot recently launched the Allot NetEnforcer AC-1400 and Allot NetEnforcer AC-3000, next generation traffic management devices. The new product lines bring advanced network optimization to tier-2/3 service providers and high end enterprises, and are designed to enable them to optimize network efficiency by maximizing ROI on existing infrastructure, improving policy enforcement and enhancing user experience.