Qosmos and NetSTAR, an ALSI Group Company, Announce Plans to Combine Qosmos' ixEngine Deep Packet Inspection Technology with NetSTAR's inCompass URL Categorization and Security Technology

SAN MATEO, Calif. and PARIS, Sept. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSTAR, Inc., a global leader in URL categorization and web security and Qosmos^®, the market leader in Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and network intelligence technology for use in physical, SDN and NFV architectures, today announced a strategic partnership that will simplify the integration of NetSTAR's inCompass^® URL categorization and web security technology with the Qosmos ixEngine^®. 

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With NetSTAR's inCompass technology working side-by-side with Qosmos ixEngine, hardware vendors, software vendors, Solution Providers, Operators, and Service Providers will be able to quickly and easily exploit the full power of Qosmos DPI technology recognizing over 97% of network traffic with a library of over 2,500 plugins and signatures, and a total of over 4,300 metadata. This is combined with NetSTAR's ability to categorize over 98% of all URL (http/https) traffic in one of over 180 different categories as well as over 12 different securities categories including malware, botnets, infected sites, spyware, phishing and spam.

"NetSTAR has positioned itself as a global leader in URL categorization and web security technology for some of the industry's leading companies.  As a global company with the most advanced filtering and security offerings in the market we are excited to work with Qosmos to provide our OEM partners and prospective partners, as well as Qosmos' partners, with a comprehensive solution that addresses the application and URL filtering needs while simplifying their integration and support requirements," said Akira Nakayama, Vice President of NetSTAR Global Business unit ALSI Security Group.

"Vendors can take advantage of this new technology combination to provide stronger security solutions, and end-users will benefit from better protection of their networked assets," said Thibaut Bechetoille, CEO at Qosmos.

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About NetSTAR Incorporated

NetSTAR is the global leader in OEM URL categorization and web security. NetSTAR's inCompass technology provides OEM partner solutions for web filtering and web security with a globally distributed footprint and coverage of over 800,000,000 end-points. NetSTAR is the OEM partner of choice for ISP, SaaS, MSP, software and hardware developers, and integrators of all kinds that need a content filtering technology. inCompass is available as a local SDK, Cloud lookup, Hybrid, or for a Data Center clustered deployment.

NetSTAR is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with offices located in San Mateo, California, Boulder, Colorado, Sendai, Japan, and London, England.

More information about NetSTAR and inCompass can be found at http://inCompass.NetSTAR-inc.com

About Qosmos

Qosmos leads the market for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and network intelligence technology used in physical, SDN and NFV architectures. The company supplies software to vendors who embed real-time application awareness in their products for traffic optimization, service chaining, quality of service, analytics, cyber security and more. Qosmos brings fast time to market for network intelligence and continuous protocol signature updates inside physical, SDN and NFV networking products. As the leading supplier of network intelligence software, Qosmos contributes actively to open source projects and international standards, and serves 75% of the market.

For more information, please visit www.qosmos.com
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