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What is Lawful Interception?

Lawful Interception is a legal requirement that telecommunication service providers have to support national security throughout the world. It is mandatory for the Telecom Service Providers to have an interception system in their network which can help them comply with these Government Regulations. The service providers have to make sure that the interception system covers all the technologies, both present, and future. The international standards direct the lawful interception framework along with the local laws and regulations laid down by local governing bodies.

According to European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), as a legally sanctioned official access to private communications, Lawful Interception (LI) is a security process in which a service provider or network operator collects and provides law enforcement officials with intercepted communications of private individuals or organizations.

Need for Lawful Interception-

With the advent of communication technologies and its ever-increasing reach, its use by criminals to plan and execute crimes has also augmented. To tackle these crimes Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) need to have access to their communications which can enable them to nip the bud at an early stage. To enable access to such communications, Governments across the world make it mandatory for the Telecommunication Service Providers to intercept these communications and share them with the LEAs on either a real-time basis or as a recording.

Lawful Interception (LI) implementation is required by the European Union International User Requirements 19951 which allows for LI to prevent crime, including fraud and terrorism. The ETSI specifications are now in widespread use in many countries that require the Lawful Interception of telecommunications.

In the USA, the comparable requirements are enabled by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), with the specific capabilities promulgated jointly by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice.

The benefit of Interceptor-Pertsol Interceptor

iNterceptor is capable of handling networks with very high throughput requirements. It can handle multiple 100 Gbps links and can select required traffic from these links. PertSol intel probe has been tested and implemented for traffic up to 40 Gbps per probe.

The integrity check mechanism periodically checks the network elements and if required corrects the erroneous states. It will query the network element for the placed intercepts and add missing intercepts, remove invalid intercepts, etc. This mechanism is used to detect and correct both network flaws as well as tampering with the interception solution. In case of correction of an erroneous state, this will be notified to the operator.

PertSol interceptor is a Lawful Interception system unified for network operators and telecom service providers which is fully compliant to the international standards and has a proven track record. It is a complete solution that is capable of handling both circuit switch and packet switch traffic from both legacy as well as latest telecom technologies including PSTN, 2G, 3G, 4G, LTE, NGN, IMS, etc.