Telecom

Telecommunications is a natural place for real-time Complex Event Processing (CEP). After all, it was telco where real-time computing was first applied and it's not coincidence that some of earliest commercial work in the field of event processing was done at Bell Labs in the early to mid 90's, with some of this work led by Jerry Baulier, Aleri's CTO.

As is the case with many organizations, the telco industry has to deal with large amounts of fast moving data. Some of the areas that can benefit from CEP include: network monitoring, call pricing, prepay billing, fraud detection/prevention, and call record matching.

For example: CEP is a natural platform for implementing a call mediation application. This type of application correlates call initiation and call completion records with account details to create a billing record that goes into the billing system. If the call records, account information and all other data was all loaded into a data warehouse separately, billing reports could be run, but the time to run them would be excessive. By doing real-time data correlation in the Aleri Streaming Platform, the information can be loaded into a data warehouse in a form that can be instantly retrieved as needed.

Other examples include:

• applying CEP to the problem and monitoring network latency: the Aleri CEP engine can be used to compute latency across different segments in real-time, generating alerts when latency thresholds are exceeded
• real-time correlation of security events to filter out noise and detect incidents of significance