Market

The global Performance Management market is estimated to be worth € 2 Billion in 2008 (Source: JMP Securities). The driving force behind this market is the ever-growing demand of businesses and end users who depend on quick and reliable access to the business applications to remain efficient and competitive. Mobile users and subscribers using PDA’s, PC’s, pagers, and other devices increase traffic, and they are accessing converged, IP networks that handle WLAN, WIFI, VoIP, and other protocols because applications are migrating to HTML. Sustaining levels of service, availability and the end-user’s Quality of Experience (QoE) strains the network and complicates application performance management.

Most companies have seen their network traffic increase by between 30% and 50% per year (Source: Gartner Group). Traffic is dynamic and difficult to manage, and converged networks are challenged. In fact, most systems and the underlying Internet infrastructure are designed in static, non-scalable, non-adaptable, and inefficient way. To deliver the performance of the new business Internet, the legacy platform – NMS, BSS and OSS Systems – needs to be more tightly integrated, automated, and “application aware.”

In short, enterprise customers demand greater performance – down to the branch office or even remote end-user - at lower prices. Service providers are fighting shrinking margins while finding it hard to provision new services over a patchwork of networks.

Telecommunications and network service providers are facing a crushing competitive dilemma between the dual threats of commoditization and a lack of differentiation for network services.

Built specifically to help service providers compete and win in the new converged network environment, Streamcore’s StreamSense gives incumbent carriers, data centers, access providers, or managed application providers the tools to provision, control and report on the network, services and applications. It detects changing conditions, analyzes them, learns from them, and acts to modify and control network performance, class control, and QoS.