HOD HASHARON, Israel,
May 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ,
TASE: ALLT), a leading provider of security and monetization
solutions that enable service providers to protect and personalize
the digital experience, today announced that it has successfully
demonstrated that its security services virtual network functions
(VNF) and virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) solutions are
interoperable with leading NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) and
orchestration (NFVO) ecosystems.
Allot will showcase the readiness and agility of its solution by
onboarding and orchestrating successfully with different NFV
infrastructures in a live interoperability demonstration being held
at the Big Communications Event 2016, led by New IP Agency (NIA)
and organized by EANTC. NIA's Live Interoperability Demo addresses
service function chaining and provides a realistic and neutral set
of tests based on public standards, open-source community
developments and market feedback. The interoperability testing
included an Allot VNF based on Allot Service Gateway - Virtual
Edition, capable of delivering services such as
Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) with Allot's WebSafe Personal and
WebSafe Business.
Virtualization improves the business case and capabilities of
SECaaS, according to a new Heavy Reading survey conducted during
April - May 2016, titled "Virtualized
Security as a Service." Based on survey responses from over
100 CSPs who were asked about their current and future plans for
virtualized security services deployment, Heavy Reading found that
CSPs have a good understanding of the potential cost and service
delivery benefits of a virtualized SECaaS approach and in many
cases are eager to deploy commercially at scale.
Key findings of Heavy Reading's survey include:
- Lower costs (46.4 percent of respondents) and faster time to
market (34 percent) were identified as the top benefits for
offering virtualized SECaaS;
- The two most important ways that security service providers can
differentiate themselves from competitors are simplicity of
operation for the enterprise administrator and integration with
existing network, operation support systems (OSS) and business
support systems (BSS);
- 71.6 percent of CSPs saw a return on the customer acquisition
costs in fewer than four months and 40 percent in less than two,
demonstrating the positive ROI that can be quickly achieved from a
security service offering.
"NFV can transform the landscape in Security as a Service and
our survey provides ample evidence of CSPs that are well on the way
to doing that," said Patrick
Donegan, chief analyst at Heavy Reading. "Vendors that can
leverage a mature virtualized solution portfolio to deliver faster
to market and at lower cost, should be very well positioned to grow
revenues in this space."
Allot will be showcasing its virtualized security solutions in
Allot booth #202 at the Big Communications Event
being held May 24-25 at the
Austin Convention Center in
Austin, Texas.
NIA and EANTC produced a report titled "Big Communications Event
2016 NIA Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test" which captures the
demo outcomes. The report is available here.
About Allot Communications
Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: ALLT) is a leading
provider of security and monetization solutions that enable service
providers to protect and personalize the digital experience.
Allot's flexible and highly scalable service delivery framework
leverages the intelligence in data networks enabling service
providers to get closer to their customers; to safeguard network
assets and users; and to accelerate time-to-revenue for value-added
services. We employ innovative technology, proven know-how and a
collaborative approach to provide the right solution for every
network environment. Allot solutions are currently deployed at 5 of
the top 10 global mobile operators and in thousands of CSP and
enterprise networks worldwide. For more information, please visit
http://www.allot.com
About NIA
The New IP Agency (NIA) is a not-for-profit independent
initiative providing information, education, analysis, community
services and testing to support and accelerate the development of a
global economy based on open, advanced, virtualized IP
networks.
About EANTC
EANTC (European Advanced Networking Test Center) is
internationally recognized as one of the world's leading
independent test centers for telecommunication technologies. Based
in Berlin, Germany, the company
offers vendor-neutral consultancy and realistic, reproducible
high-quality testing services since 1991. Customers include leading
network equipment manufacturers, tier-1 service providers, large
enterprises and governments worldwide. EANTC's proof of concept,
acceptance tests and network audits cover established and
next-generation fixed and mobile network technologies.
http://www.eantc.com
Safe Harbor Statement
This release contains forward-looking statements, which express
the current beliefs and expectations of Company management. Such
statements involve a number of known and unknown risks and
uncertainties that could cause our future results, performance or
achievements to differ significantly from the results, performance
or achievements set forth in such forward-looking statements.
Important factors that could cause or contribute to such
differences include risks relating to: our ability to compete
successfully with other companies offering competing technologies;
the loss of one or more significant customers; consolidation of,
and strategic alliances by, our competitors, government regulation;
the timing of completion of key project milestones which impact the
timing of our revenue recognition; lower demand for key value-added
services; our ability to keep pace with advances in technology and
to add new features and value-added services; managing lengthy
sales cycles; operational risks associated with large projects; our
dependence on third party channel partners for a material portion
of our revenues; and other factors discussed under the heading
"Risk Factors" in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking
statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made only as of
the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update
or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise.
Contacts
Allot Communication
Sigalit Orr | Director
of Marketing Communications and Analyst Relations
+972-9-761-9171| sorr@allot.com
Merritt Group, Inc.
Melissa Chadwick l Merritt
Group, Inc.
+1-571-382-8513 l chadwick@merrittgrp.com
SOURCE Allot Communications Ltd.