Protocol and Application Decoding Engine (PADE)

ipoque Protocol and Application Decoding Engine (PADE) is a software library for integration in networking equipment and for standalone use. It extracts information from network application data transmissions and presents them with configurable level of detail ranging from individual events to fully aggregated and correlated session transcripts.

Protocol events

One event is generated for each individual protocol operation providing the maximum level of detail in real-time. For example, each HTTP request immediately triggers a protocol event.

Protocol class events

Individual protocol events of an application session are intelligently aggregated by a protocol event correlation engine into a single, more complex and well-structured protocol class event.

PADE Application Scenarios

Lawful interception and mass interception network probes
Generation of layer-7 IPDRs/CDRs – or Intercept-Related Information (IRI) – and decoding of Content of Communication (CC) in lawful interception (LI) and mass interception network probes

Backend decoding systems in lawful interception solutions
Extraction of application-layer meta data and fully decoded communication content from recorded network trace data as well as live interception data from LI probes and mediation devices for data retention and post-processing

Traffic and bandwidth management systems
Extract application-layer and content criteria for bandwidth management and quality-of-service (QoS) rules

Next-generation firewalls
Enable data leakage prevention, deep security scans and net- work access control based on application- and content-layer criteria