Applications Overview

CloudShield's network solutions benefit from the industry's broadest set of deployed software applications. These include best-of-breed commercial software packages from CloudShield and leading independent vendors, as well as in-house applications developed by system integrators and customers. Overall, dozens of organizations have written software for the CloudShield platform, addressing a wide range of mission-critical network functions, such as:

• Infrastructure security: BGP, DNS, website and DDoS protection; virus, worm, spam and malware protection; and lawful intercept.
• Subscriber management: visibility- and policy-driven quality-of-service (QoS); application- and subscriber-level traffic control.
• Internet gateway applications: bi-directional translation between networks using different protocols, such as IPv6 and IPv4.

Applications from CloudShield

CloudShield provides several key applications, including:

• DNS Defender
  • Protects network infrastructure by ensuring DNS availability--even under full line-rate attack.
  • Provides industry-best performance of up to 1 million requests/second by caching DNS look-ups.
  • Slashes costs and energy consumption. Reduces the size of DNS server farms by factors of 10 or more; eliminates the need for firewalls, load balancers and switches.
  
  
• Content Inspection Gateway
  • Scalable Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS) solution for 10Gbps throughput and up.
  • Employs well-known, open-source SNORT based rules for detection and prevention.
  • Enables custom filtering and traffic distribution, dynamically.
  
  

Third-party Applications

CloudShield's platform hosts a broad and growing array of third-party applications. These include commercial applications for subscriber-level traffic monitoring, control and policy enforcement; cross-domain security; and lawful intercept. In addition, dozens of organizations and system integrators have written custom applications for internal use.

Leading-edge platform; rapid application development

All of these applications take advantage of CloudShield's industry-leading network application platform and development environment.

• CloudShield platform:
  • Open, general-purpose platform: brings economy & flexibility of open, programmable solution to network equipment market.
  • Superior architecture: highest performance, scalability and security
  • Strong partner ecosystem; broadest set of deployed applications
  • Proven in the world's most demanding network environments: leading provider to national governments and large network providers
• Packetworks Integrated Development Environment (IDE):
  • Open, integrated Eclipse-based rapid development environment for network applications
  • Write applications up to four times faster.