Traffic Control & Security Solution (TCSS)

Alcatel-Lucent Traffic Control & Security Solution (TCSS)

Traffic Control: A Growing Problem for Service Providers
A large and growing share of residential Internet activity is peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, generated by a small fraction of users. Most of this traffic doesn't generate revenue for service providers, yet it consumes the lion's share of their network resources. Uncontrolled P2P traffic raises costs and forces unnecessary network infrastructure build-outs. Service providers may also lose income when uncontrolled traffic disrupts revenue-generating services such as voice-over-IP (VoIP), causing service level agreement (SLA) misses. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can additionally cause SLA misses.

TCSS: Traffic Control and Security Solution for the CloudShield Platform
Alcatel-Lucent's Traffic Control and Security Solution (TCSS) addresses these challenges. TCSS is a carrier-class application that runs on the CloudShield CS-2000 System. TCSS provides three critical capabilities:

• Subscriber Traffic Control allows service providers to shape traffic on a per subscriber, protocol and time-of-day basis. Service providers can thus ensure customer satisfaction, QoS and SLAs through policies enforcing optimal distribution of available bandwidth.
  
  
• Aggregate Traffic Control enables service providers to regain control of their peering links, reducing monthly link charges and avoiding peering imbalance fees from their Tier 1 providers.
  
  
• Denial of Service Protection improves network availability, performance and customer satisfaction by protecting infrastructure from DDoS attacks. Probes strategically placed around the network report to a central repository, where analytic software identifies DDoS attacks and recommends remedial actions.
  
  

Top- and Bottom-line Benefits
TCSS a win-win-win proposition for service providers. It reduces operating costs by simplifying bandwidth management, reducing Tier 1 provider charges and protecting against costly DDOS attacks. It cuts capital expenditures by reducing or deferring network build-outs. And it drives revenues by improving SLA and QoS compliance and by freeing up bandwidth for new revenue-generating services.