Elitecore
Elitecore Technologies Limited is an Information Technology Products and Software Solutions Company based in India. It has presence across Communications, Network Security and Access Gateway domains. With products like CRESTEL offering BSS, OSS, EliteAAA Radius AAA &, Policy Management, Cyberoam - the Next Generation Unified Internet Security and 24Online – Billing & Bandwidth management solutions, it counts among very few Indian companies to be exclusively present in the IT products manufacturing space. Elitecore is a dynamic player with expertise in IP-based technologies and has a sales and distribution channel in over 72 countries.
Elitecore was established in December 1999 by New York based Software technocrats Hemal Patel and Ben Casado who have over 20 years experience in IT consulting for large enterprises and telecom companies and in promoting ventures for the ISP and technology space in the USA, Puerto Rico and India. Elitecore's headquarters is in Ahmedabad with branch offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Dubai and subsidiaries in USA and Bahrain.
Investors
The Carlyle Group invested 10.3 million USD in Elitecore Technologies Limited in 2007. The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm based in Washington DC with more than $84.5 billion of equity capital under its management.
Milestones
2009
- Elitecore wins Frost & Sullivan Price Performance Value leadership award for its OSS/BSS software billing and charging solution.
- Elitecore opens its office in Bahrain and Dubai
- Expands customer base to 78+ countries for CRESTEL, Cyberoam & 24 Online.
- 3000 Resellers and 55 Distributors
- Major research and advisory firm Gartner rates Cyberoam as visionary in its magic quadrant
2008
- Cyberoam launches a new range of security products and increases partner network in the USA.
- Launch of EliteAAA Appliance & Policy Management for Telecoms
- ZDNet Asia ranks Elitecore as a Top Technology company in Asia.
2007
- EliteRadius renamed as EliteAAA.
- Cyberoam lauded by market research and analysis firm IDC for its identity-based UTM solution.
- US-based global private equity firm, the Carlyle group invests $10.3 million in Elitecore.
2006
- 24Online launches Billing & Bandwidth management in Middle East.
- CRESTEL receives the IP telephony award for its solution.
- CRESTEL launches WiMAX Solution
2005
- Elitecore wins Convergent Billing contract for Voice CDMA.
- Entry of Cyberoam in the US market.
- Elitecore gets ICSA and ISO certification.
2004
- CRESTEL entry into international market.
- Cyberoam is positioned as Unified Threat Management solution.
2003
- JISP is renamed as CRESTEL with new architecture and features added to meet the telecom operator requirements.
2002
- Cyberoam is positioned as an Internet Security solution.
- 24online gains keys accounts in the Indian market.
2000
- Launch of Cyberoam -Internet Access Management software.
1999
- Company established with the launch of JISP – Java based Internet software for ISPs and 24 Online for Bandwidth management.
Products
1. Cyberoam
In the Network Security domain, Elitecore offers Cyberoam Identity-based UTM appliances offering single box solution against multiple Internet threats. The following security features are included in it.
- Stateful Inspection firewall
- VPN
- Gateway Anti-virus,
- Gateway anti-spam
- On Appliance reporting
- Intrusion prevention system
- Content filtering
- Bandwidth management
- Multiple link management
2. Cyberoam iView
Elitecore Technologies has developed an open source logging and reporting solution, iView which gives centralized Identity-based logging and reporting of multiple devices across various geographical locations
3. CRESTEL
CRESTEL Billing & Revenue Management Solution is a carrier-grade OSS/BSS solution that supports next generation voice, video, data services over Wireline/ Wireless networks. It supports Telecommunications services, Wireless, IPTV, VoIP, WiMAX and Triple Play. Following are the modules offered under CRESTEL Product suite.
CRESTEL OSS/BSS / Customer Management
- Convergent Billing
- Convergent Mediation System
- Real Time Provisioning
- Quad Play Billing
- WiMAX CSN platform
- Interconnect Billing
Add-on products:
- Voucher management
- Web self-care
- Work order management
- Partner and reseller management
- IP-based R&C system for GSM, 3G, VAS services
4. EliteAAA
Elitecore’s EliteAAA is a ubiquitous Radius- AAA. It supports the Access control, Service delivery, and Accounting requirements of Carriers, Service Providers, Wireless Operators, IMS & VoIP Operators. EliteAAA centrally manages the subscriber’s authentication & authorizes them for appropriate level of service, and ensures reliable accounting of their usage.
EliteAAA offers:
- AAA server
- Charging gateway
- Policy Manager
- Service Selection portal
EliteAAA is available as software as well as an appliance.
5. 24online
24online is a billing & bandwidth management solution, product of Elitecore that supports ISP, hotels, hotspots, educational institutes and enterprise to provide time and usage based Internet access and to manage subscribers and franchisees. 24online currently has 90 percent market share in ISP's in India.
The features of 24online include:,
- Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
- Bandwidth management
- ISP, Hotel, Hotspot, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max billing
- Access control
- Captive portal capabilities
- Subscriber management
- Multi-link support
- Room-to-port VLAN
- PMS integration
- Login once
- Prepaid coupon management
- Web surfing logger
- Zero configuration
- Data & Network security
- MIS reports
See also
- Telecommunications rating
- List of RADIUS servers
- Unified Threat Management
- SSL VPN