CloudShield BladeCenter DPI solution : Value of the Collaboration

IBM's BladeCenter brings carrier class reliability, virtualization and CAPEX/OPEX reduction from IT environments to the service provider infrastructure. CloudShield's DPI technology allows the BladeCenter to penetrate deep into the network core by delivering more sophisticated network control and security applications. Together CloudShield and IBM deliver an open and scalable advanced platform that enables network operators to offer personalized services, new billing models and new revenue streams.

Content Inspection Gateway:
The CloudShield Content Inspection Gateway (CIG) leverages several different leading technologies to bring the best of breed solutions to bear on today's high bandwidth security problems. CIG is a combination of IBM blade center, with the proven IBM quality, expertise, and scalability required for today's data centers, CloudShield deep packet inspection capabilities to manage high speed flows across multiple 10Gb links, and SNORT's proven excellence as an Intrusion Detection & Prevention engine (IDS/IPS).

Cyber Product Suite:
DNS Defender running on blade center provides a high performance firewall that significantly improves performance of existing DNS servers through patented technology. The use of DNS Defender in a blade center allows for the replacement of expensive custom DNS solutions with inexpensive industry standard BIND if so desired. DNS Defender stops DNS attacks including DDOS and cache poisoning attacks.

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