Allot Communications Ltd.
VideoClass
This is a video optimization solution for mobile-operator OTT video delivery. According to the company, the solution employs optimization techniques that enable service providers to: (a) Reduce the load on RAN and backhaul bandwidth by 30 percent to 50 percent; (b) Reduce capital and operating expenditure; (c) Prevent video stalls and buffering for a consistently high OTT video experience, even under highly variable and unpredictable network conditions; (d) Create new revenue opportunities through service packages designed for video consumers; (e) Gain insight into consumer behavior through detailed analytics on video usage.

ASSIA Inc.
DSL Expresse 3.1
Presented as the world’s first DSL network management system designed to manage simultaneously vectored and non-vectored lines, its features and capabilities include: (a) A vectoring predictor that analyzes each line in a network and assists a service provider with determining the optimal and/or most cost-effective vectoring deployment strategy; (b) The ability to identify customer premises equipment (CPE) remotely as capable of supporting vectoring, requiring a software upgrade, or in need of replacement; (c) Spectrum management of nonvectored lines to minimize the impact on vectored lines' performance; (d) PHY retransmission management that supports G.INP standard PHY retransmission and Broadcom proprietary PHY-R technology for enhanced protection against impulse noise; (e) ClearView expert system that provides clear and concise recommendations to a contact center agent or field technician to resolve a customer DSL issue. It has a user-friendly graphical interface that integrates with the company's Expresse Wi-Fi and allows the service provider to identify the source of performance problems, whether DSL or Wi-Fi.

Big Switch Networks
Big Switch Open SDN product suite
This includes the Big Network Controller (BNC), Big Tap and Big Virtual Switch (BVS). Big Network Controller (BNC) is an Open SDN platform for network applications which scales to more than a thousand switches and 250,000 new host connections per second. Big Tap is a unified network monitoring application which, according to the company, provides cost-effective enterprise-wide network visibility. Big Virtual Switch (BVS)is a data-center network virtualization application to make the data-center network agile and dynamic in the manner of cloud compute resources. It supports up to 32,000 virtual network segments, enabling multitenancy and workload dynamism, and offers integration into popular orchestration systems, including OpenStack, CloudStack, Microsoft System Center and VMware vCenter.

BroadSoft Inc.
BroadCloud RCS
Addition of Rich Communications Services to the BroadCloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform provides mobile operators with managed service delivery of converged messaging, presence, media sharing, voice and video calling.

UC One
Presented as a comprehensive platform that enables telecom service providers to offer a wide-range of unified-communications solutions, its capabilities and features include a single end-user interface, full mobility, open APIs and defined market offerings, such as for microbusinesses, small and medium businesses and large enterprises.

Compuverde AB
Software-defined storage (SDS) for telcos and service providers
This is presented as a solution providing the entire software stack for big-data storage, enabling service providers to scale linearly without incurring the costs associated with building a new storage cluster. Capabilities and features according to the company include: (a) Linear scaling -- Customers can add more nodes to a cluster while simultaneously boosting the capacity of each node, realizing substantial gains in ROI and virtual machine performance; (b) Hardware agnostic -- Jettisons the need for expensive hardware, allowing telcos and service providers to choose lower-energy, lower-cost commodity hardware without sacrificing speed; (c) Scales to thousands of virtual machines in the same cluster, eliminating the cost and hassle of building a new cluster to accommodate scaling.

Cyan Inc.
Blue Planet
The software­defined networking (SDN) system is composed of three distinct elements: (a) an open SDN platform, (b) SDN apps, and (c) element adapter apps facilitating control over a range of third-­party network devices. Blue Planet allows apps to interact not only with OpenFlow compliant network devices but also with legacy devices deployed prior to the development of SDN.

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
wSight
The carrier-grade management system for WLANs serves the same functions as standard management systems for telecom networks by providing operators with integrated reports and featuring a smart configuration tool and web-designed infrastructure. The integrated reports display network status and network KPIs during a certain period. The smart configuration tool is used to mass-manage network equipment and configure other-vendor equipment according to operator requirements. The web-designed infrastructure allows O&M engineers to easily and conveniently manage networks through a Web browser, the company says.

IPsmarx Technology Inc.
Rechargeable Calling Card Solution
This update to the company’s solution makes physical calling cards rechargeable. Other new capabilities and features include E-commerce integration, the ability to offer $1 free to new users and the simplification of and PINl-ess account creation.

Nokia Siemens Networks
Customer Experience Management (CEM) for Liquid Net
This provides insight into the experience of people using a mobile network and converts that into specific investment and network optimization projects using the company's Liquid Net software portfolio. CEM links capacity-optimization related investments to customer experience, enabling operators to decide when and where to optimize network performance to improve user experience and protect and grow revenue. According to the company, the approach extends traditional network and operational approaches by directly linking customer and revenue insights to improving network performance.

Openwave Mobility Inc.
SUR 9.0
A version of the subscriber data management solution for 3G and 4G mobile networks, its features and capabilities include: highly-distributed processes design; optimum in-memory and SSD storage and compression techniques; handling more than 80,000 read operations per second and 25,000 write operations per second; and reduced hardware footprint of just two nodes running on standard Linux-based hardware.

Riverbed Technology Inc.
Cascade 10.0 release
This update to the application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution to handles virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI), server virtualization, and fully virtualized data centers using VXLAN software-defined networks (SDNs). According to the company, Cascade 10.0 provides detailed monitoring into the performance of virtualized environments, including the most popular VDI protocols, and is a NPM solution to provide visibility for VMware View (PCoIP protocol) for actions such as screen refresh, print, type etc. Also supported is monitoring of the Common Internet File Systems (CIFS) protocol to ensure the performance of file sharing and collaboration applications such as Microsoft SharePoint. Cascade 10.0 also provides performance monitoring of VXLAN SDNs by providing visibility into the UDP-encapsulated traffic and virtual tunnel endpoints. With these VXLAN capabilities, Cascade products provide network operations teams with the ability to: (a) Control and understand VXLAN virtual overlay network performance; (b) Monitor and troubleshoot software-defined data centers (SDDC) and the physical network in a single, easy-to-use solution; (c) Provide SDDC owners a singular view into their data center's performance and service-level agreements (SLAs).

Sandvine Inc.
Routing Efficiency Dashboard
This provides a detailed look into the routing and transit links and interconnect relationships that affect operational expenses on fixed and mobile networks. It highlights high-demand traffic using high-cost transit links, allowing communication service providers to reroute traffic toward more appropriate routes such as private peering, the company says. Identifying the most efficient links for high-demand traffic creates immediate cost savings and helps ensure a consistent quality of experience for subscribers. Operators can also measure the quality of links based on their ability to carry rich media, and consequently can make routing decisions based on quality.

WebNMS
Carrier Ethernet OAM solution
This provides a unified console from which service providers can manage all their carrier-Ethernet equipment, regardless of vendor. The new solution includes: (a) Auto-Discovery -- Automatically discovers switches, ports and E-line/E-LAN services; logical elements like services, UNIs, endpoints and profiles are also captured by the discovery filter; (b) Provisioning -- The user interface enables point-and-click provisioning of Ethernet services and OAM profiles; logical elements like services, endpoints, UNIs, NNIs and Ports can be added; (c) Class of Service (CoS) -- Flows allow for testing of throughput, latency and jitter; the network can be engineered for different traffic priorities; (d) Performance -- Monitoring and health checking include real-time reporting on service and network performance metrics, port and EVC utilization, transmission errors, and QoS thresholds; (e) Fault Management -- Carrier Ethernet traps from multiple vendors such as RFC2544FdAlarm and RFC2544JitterAlarm are parsed and correlated into meaningful events and alarms; (f) Northbound OSS Integration -- Attributes and object models can exposed to an OSS interface via SOAP/XML, SNMP or CORBA; (g) Cloud-based Customer Portal -- Customizable reporting framework on the cloud to help improve the end customer experience, and giving end customers visibility of their service monitoring, performance metrics and SLAs.

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