CS Benchmarks
	“Guido Nienkemper, who is Security Practice Lead (Europe and North) at AlcaLu, says his company benchmarked a number of vendors, including Ellacoya Networks Inc. and Sandvine Inc. (London: SAND - message board; Toronto: SVC), and found Cloudshield "is the most flexible, has combined security and service control capabilities, and has the performance speeds that are needed" for Tier 1 carrier deployments.”

Broadband network operators face a myriad of challenges: Unforeseen traffic patterns affect user satisfaction, clog costly transit links, and challenge over-subscription plans. Competition drives connectivity speeds up, but subscription rates down; and new security threats and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to threaten your most valued enterprise customers.

And while network operators are under the gun to deliver compelling new services, they have to open up their networks to competing virtual operators. CloudShield solutions offer large network operators solutions for:

CloudShield solutions offer large network operators solutions for:

• New reporting, billing and revenue models for increased bottom lines
• Comprehensive infrastructure security and control of hostile traffic for continual uptime and satisfied, loyal customers
• Personalized, value added network services to compete in today's market
• The agility to deliver new services and billing plans on demand to increase revenues and profit.

Service Provider Solutions

• Domain Name System Protection
• Peer-to-Peer Control
• Distributed Denial of Service Attack Mitigation