New solution enables networks to restrict, manage and monitor their traffic in real-time - Big Brother really is watching you.
ProQuent Systems, a provider of mobile data infrastructure, today announced the launch of ProQuent ACCESS (Authorized Content Control & Electronic Subject Screening) Mobile. The solution will enable mobile operators, for the first time, to manage and monitor content sent or accessed over their network without any degradation in network performance.
In January 2004, UK mobile network operators Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, O2 and 3 signed up to a "Code of Practice" that governs the way content is classified and made available to customers. The Code, endorsed by UK Communications Minister Stephen Timms, will come into force by the end of 2004.
ProQuent ACCESS Mobile is the only commercially available solution which enables mobile operators to actively enforce content and access control policies in real-time. It can avert access to inappropriate mobile Internet sites and content (including video streams); filter mobile messages containing inappropriate or offensive material from unapproved sites and allow operators to manage services based on content classifications.
It will allow mobile network operators to create tailored service packages for subscriber groups such as young children or teenagers. Operators will also be able to provide authorized-only access to adult content, chat rooms or gambling sites, for example. The ProQuent ACCESS Mobile solution is designed to be easily integrated with a mobile network operator's existing service delivery platform. As content filtering and access control is managed at the network level, mobile phone users do not have to upgrade their handsets or download any software.
The solution is based on the ProQuent MSSP (Mobile Services Switching Point), which provides a flexible platform for operators to manage data applications running on their networks. The ProQuent MSSP scans and filters data traffic and checks Internet access requests against the world's largest categorized database of inappropriate web content, created and updated by SurfControl. The SurfControl Content Database includes more than six million URLs and one billion web pages. SurfControl reviews and categorizes web sites in more than 65 languages and 200 countries, and over 35,000 new URLs are added every week. The SurfControl Content Database is kept current with a combination of expert human review, state-of-the-art automated tools and customer submissions.
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