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Qosmos

Qosmos, a division of Enea, leads the market for IP traffic classification and network intelligence technology used in physical, SDN and NFV architectures. The company supplies software to vendors who wish to embed detailed, real-time visibility in their products for functions such as:

  • Traffic optimization
  • Policy management
  • Service chaining
  • Quality of service
  • Subscriber analytics
  • Next-generation firewalls
  • SIEM
  • Security analytics
  • Malware protection
  • Data loss protection

Networking vendors, security specialists, and cloud service providers widely use Qosmos to gain application visibility, accelerate development, strengthen capabilities of new solutions, and benefit from continuous protocol signature updates.

More than 70% of networking and security vendors who have decided to source Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) software have selected Qosmos to embed Layer 2 to Layer 7 flow classification and metadata extraction into their products.

Solutions

Qosmos ixEngine® is the de facto industry-standard for IP classification and metadata extraction based on DPI.

While some technologies are limited to identifying the application behind an IP flow, Qosmos ixEngine goes further to also extract protocol and application metadata. This enables developers to inject application-level insight into their solutions for complete visibility into network traffic in real time and a detailed understanding of network transactions and user behavior.

A series of optional modules is also available to shorten development cycles. These modules, such as a Rule Engine or a Deep File Inspection function, use the output data from classification and metadata extraction and apply further processing that would otherwise have to be built within the final application.

Designed with developers in mind, Qosmos ixEngine accelerates product development cycles. Ready-to-use software libraries and modules reduce costs and risks associated with developing and maintaining a highly complex technology internally. These include:

  • C Libraries designed to be embedded into applications.
  • 2700 protocol plugins, continuously supported and updated.
  • 4500 application metadata extracted.
  • Classification of networking protocols and applications based on flow pattern matching, bi-directional flow-correlation, heuristics, and statistical analysis.
  • High recognition rate: ability to identify all layers from layer 2 to 7 in the OSI model.
  • Ability to develop custom application plugins based on description.