NETWORK INSIGHTS

The latest trends and use cases
in application and subscriber intelligence

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APPLICATION AWARENESS

Identify application traffic
with deep packet inspection

Add application visibility to your networking or cybersecurity solution to analyze, optimize or manage IP traffic. Classify thousands of applications and protocols and extract metadata in real time, even if traffic is encrypted or obfuscated. Save R&D costs and rely on weekly signature updates.

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SUBSCRIBER AWARENESS

Identify subscriber traffic
with user and control plane correlation

Boost your network packet broker or IP probing solution with user and control plane correlation achieving mobile subscriber awareness in 3G, 4G and 5G networks. Enhance your solution with session-aware traffic aggregation, filtering and load balancing capabilities – easily integrated as OEM software.

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Turning raw IP data into network intelligence

ipoque, a Rohde & Schwarz company, is a leading provider of advanced, future-proof OEM deep packet inspection (DPI) and IP analytics software delivering comprehensive visibility of IP network traffic. Embedded into networking and cybersecurity tools, IP analytics solutions by ipoque enable application classification and mobile subscriber awareness, empowering customers to understand their network data. Transform raw IP data into the insights you need to analyze, optimize and manage networks effectively and to ensure the highest connectivity and security.

Founded as a software start-up in Leipzig in 2005 and acquired by the Munich-based Rohde & Schwarz group in 2011, ipoque combines the best of two worlds: agile software development and the resources of an international electronics group.

News & Media

Press release

Encrypted traffic intelligence to become a crucial feature of next-gen DPI solutions, says research report

Leipzig, Germany — March 15, 2023 — ipoque GmbH, a Rohde & Schwarz company and a leading provider of next-gen deep packet inspection (DPI) software, today unveils the findings of its latest research report that investigates the evolution of deep packet inspection (DPI) technologies against the growth of encrypted traffic across today’s IP networks. The first-ever report on encryption that is based on the views of leading networking vendors finds a strong demand for next-generation DPI solutions that feature encrypted traffic intelligence, with 92.6% of networking vendors having already incorporated the capability, or planning to do so in their existing or future networking or cybersecurity solutions.

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Whitepaper

Encrypted traffic visibility with next gen DPI

Encryption is rapidly becoming synonymous with network security and privacy. However, encryption presents challenges in the form of diminished network visibility and control which can be disruptive to networks that are highly reliant on deep network insights into managing and securing their data and assets. This whitepaper reviews encryption protocols, loss of traffic visibility and the associated adverse impact on network functionalities. It provides insights on how the incorporation of encypted traffic intelligence (ETI), including cutting-edge ML / DL techniques, circumvents the limitations associated with conventional deep packet inspection.

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Research report: Deep packet inspection and encrypted traffic visibility for IP networks

This research report is the first-ever report on encryption that is based on the views of leading networking vendors. The report confirms that emerging encryption techniques greatly impact networking functions, namely security and analytics. Therefore, left unaddressed, encryption can have serious destabilizing effects on the network. Given the widespread use of encryption, the ability to analyze encrypted traffic flows is expected to feature prominently as a key capability across today's DPI solutions.

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Blog post

Nowhere to hide: Using deep packet inspection for threat detection

Sudden changes in application speeds and latencies can indicate a cyberattack. This article discusses how threat detection can be augmented with deep packet inspection. It looks at how granular, application-level and service-level insights from DPI can be built into an enterprise’s threat detection system for highly accurate and reliable identification of malicious, suspicious and anomalous traffic.

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Blog post

User and control plane correlation for intelligent load balancing in mobile networks

As mobile network operators face the challenges of increased traffic demands and security threats, intelligent load balancing has become more important than ever. This article discusses the deployment of our GTP correlation module R&S®GSRM for Niagara Networks’ Open Visibility Platform (OVP). It explains how the OEM software module enables subscriber awareness, allowing mobile network operators to benefit from intelligent load balancing and how this improves network efficiency, performance, traffic management, security, visibility and automation.

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Whitepaper

Session and subscriber awareness in mobile core networks

While general traffic awareness grants IP network operators an overview of the network, subscriber awareness goes a step further by unearthing deeper insights on the subscriber level. This whitepaper explains why subscriber awareness plays a key role in the management of networks and how vendors of network packet brokers and other equipment, as well as mobile operators, are able to enhance the performance of their network functions by incorporating the OEM software module R&S®GSRM.

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Customer insights

Success Story

Barracuda integrates R&S®PACE 2

Customer product: CloudGen Firewall

“[...] Beyond award-winning products, we are committed to provide excellent support to our customers and partners. This is only possible if our technology partners can live up to the same high expectations and standards. [...]”

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Success Story

Nubewell integrates R&S®PACE 2

Customer product: Smart SD-WAN

"For us, this meant that ipoque's DPI library would keep growing, enabling us to secure SD-WANs proactively and in real time. Our investment in R&S®PACE 2 has paid off early because of their knowledge of DPI [...]

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CELARE integrates R&S®PACE 2

Customer product: network monitoring solution

"Our customers are increasingly seeing the need to protect their highly sensitive IT and SCADA-controlled infrastructure against malware and attacks. We decided for Rohde & Schwarz as we recognized [...]

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NETWORK INSIGHTS

The latest trends and use cases
in application and subscriber intelligence

APPLICATION AWARENESS

Identify application traffic
with deep packet inspection

SUBSCRIBER AWARENESS

Identify subscriber traffic
with user and control plane correlation

Turning raw IP data into network intelligence

News & Media

Encrypted traffic intelligence to become a crucial feature of next-gen DPI solutions, says research report

Encrypted traffic visibility with next gen DPI

Research report: Deep packet inspection and encrypted traffic visibility for IP networks

Nowhere to hide: Using deep packet inspection for threat detection

User and control plane correlation for intelligent load balancing in mobile networks

Session and subscriber awareness in mobile core networks