Data Retention: The Aqsacom Data Retention Intelligence System

Thanks to AQSACOM's award winning and well tested approaches to the lawful interception of communications traffic in multi-service environments, ADRIS (AQSACOM Data Retention Intelligence System) leverages AQSACOM's proven experience to solve the data retention challenges of today and of the future.

ADRIS delivers:
• A future-proof approach to data retention that adapts to evolutions in the regulatory and communications services environments. ADRIS will support the newly emerging data retention storage and delivery formats.
• True multiservice support. Thanks to the built-in network mediation capabilities of ADRIS, one ADRIS system supports the data retention needs for a variety of services, including wireline or wireless voice, voice-over-IP, and wireline or wireless IP services (email, messaging, web, P2P, etc.)
• Full protection of all retained data through a comprehensive data security scheme. AQSACOM applies the same rigorous security measures in the handling of retained data as it does in its lawful interception systems. ADRIS assures protection against network intrusion and unauthorized users through multiple levels of authentication. The system can also apply data encryption and authentication to both the storage and transport of retained data.
• Scalability. ADRIS' modular architecture, which is derived from AQSACOM's proven lawful interception technology, supports a scalable data retention solution that grows with the service provider's traffic flow and breadth of services.
• Long term viability. AQSACOM is now establishing partnerships with recognized vendors of storage systems and equipment. Such partnerships will ensure comprehensive, on-going support of ADRIS-based systems over the long term.

Technical Description of ADRIS

Three principal modules make up ADRIS (see figure below). The ADRIS Collection & Storage Module is responsible for the collection of retained data. This module can import transactional data from legacy platforms (e.g., billing systems) for non real time Data Retention; however, a more dynamic, future-proof application of this module is in the real time collection of live event data from switches, routers, probes, applications servers, and other network components . Once collected, the data are transformed on-the-fly (for real-time Data Retention) into an internal representation by the Data Collection Mediation Function, then sent to the Data Retention Repository (a large scale storage system). The ADRIS Consultation Module supports the querying of retained data that are stored in the Repository. This module contains the Retained Data Retrieval Function, which supports the Handover Interface (HI) with Law Enforcement Agencies to ensure a standards-compliant and secure means of requesting and obtaining the retained data. The Administration Module provisions ADRIS' communications with the required Law Enforcement Agencies. This module also instructs the Data Collection Mediation Function and network elements on what data are to be collected, while monitoring the data collection and delivery operations.