The secret room also included data-mining equipment called a Narus STA 6400, "known to be used particularly by government intelligence agencies because of its ability to sift through large amounts of data looking for preprogrammed targets."
Why couldn't they prevent 911 if this stuff is so hot?
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Specifically, this equipment was the Narus ST-6400, a machine that was capable of monitoring over 622 Mbits/second in real time in May, 2000, and capturing anything that hits its' semantice (i.e. the meaning of the content) triggers. The latest generation is called NarusInsight, capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second.
Follow me over the jump and let's learn some more about the private company Narus, it's founder Ovi Cohen, and board member Bill Crowell. Shall we?
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Narus, Inc. today announced the next generation of NarusInsight(TM), the only carrier-class IP traffic processing system that provides the complete, real-time network visibility essential to secure, manage and deliver Services over IP (SoIP). As the foundation for the industry's most advanced IP security, intercept and traffic classification applications, NarusInsight is unique in its ability to simultaneously provide deep-packet inspection from layer 2 to layer 7 and complete correlation across every link and element on the network -- all at core carrier speeds. NarusInsight 5 now processes full-packet layer 7 traffic at speeds up to OC-48 (2.5Gb/sec) and layer 4 traffic at speeds up to OC-192 (10Gb/sec), providing carriers with the flexibility and superior price performance benefits associated with deploying at both the network edge and the high-speed core. In addition, NarusInsight 5's new security application modules (the NarusInsight Secure Suite) feature the industry's first entropy-based security algorithms, providing telecom carriers with unprecedented early detection of sophisticated new-breed anomalies such as low-volume and polymorphic worms, layer 7 protocol attacks, and application attacks.
p2pnet.net
Designed with a "mitigation system" from local Chinese partner and system integration from CommVerge Solutions, Shanghai Telecom system uses NarusInsight's VoIP Discovery application module, "to detect and analyze incoming VoIP traffic to correctly determine whether that traffic is authorized or not," says Narus.
"Through the use of the ultra high-performance NarusInsight IP traffic processing system, Shanghai Telecom will be able to detect and mitigate rogue VoIP traffic on their network, enhancing the quality of experience for the users of properly configured and authorized VoIP services," it states.
If the Net phone traffic traffic "proves to be unauthorized," NarusInsight tells the mitigation system to block the traffic.
And the Narus spy system can block eBay's Skype, says the company
convergedigest.com
Narus noted that its systems have been installed by Tier 1 carriers such as AT&T, KDDI, Vodafone and Korea Telecom.
NarusInsight’s extensible application modules include:
NarusInsight Discover Suite (NDS), which supports detection of the following services and protocols for the purposes of billing, quality of service, planning and provisioning as well as blocking:
VoIP (SIP, H.323, MGCP, RTP, RTCP)
Skype
Streaming media (RTP, RTSP)
Peer-to-peer (Gnutella, BitTorrent, KaZaa, eDonkey, etc.)
Web (HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP)
Messaging (IM, MMS)
Push-to-talk |
