Overview of all ipoque resources

Product brochure R&S®vPACE

With the shift to cloud-based networking, new computing methods driven by the performance and scalability needs of such environments are rapidly being adopted. The use of VPP, a cloud-optimized methodology based on batch processing of IP packets and a locally stored vertex memory cache, significantly improves speeds and latency. By using VPP, R&S®vPACE combines the advancements in cloud computing with the reliability and accuracy of its market-leading DPI techniques to deliver unparalleled, real-time traffic insights for virtualized and cloud-native functions (VNF/CNF) as well as 5G user plane functions (UPF) hosted and managed in the cloud.

Encrypted traffic intelligence for network traffic analysis

Encryption greatly enhances the security and privacy of data. However, it introduces new challenges in terms of network monitoring and security, as it gives networks only limited visibility into the underlying traffic flows. To reinstate traffic awareness across IP networks, ipoque has enhanced its OEM deep packet inspection (DPI) technology with encrypted traffic intelligence (ETI) for accurate and highly reliable, real-time analysis of encrypted traffic. ETI complements ipoque’s market-leading traffic identification and classification methodologies and metadata extraction to deliver granular visibility for protocols, applications and services that are encrypted.

Solution brief - R&S®GSRM for greater visibility in the mobile core

To circumvent the limitations of traditional load balancing, network packet brokers can deploy the GTP Subscriber Resolving Module R&S®GSRM, which is developed by ipoque, a Rohde & Schwarz company, to deliver subscriber and session awareness for the mobile core network. Using identification information provided by R&S®GSRM, a network packet broker is able to aggregate all packets of a session and filter them by each subscriber. Packets from the same session are forwarded to a single device such as an IP probe, providing complete visibility for any end device, across any user session. With GTP correlation, operators do not have to rely on bandwidth-intensive, traditional session analysis, which is limited due to its inability to scale up to rapidly increasing traffic volumes in the core.

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.

Subscriber awareness for more efficient mobile network management

Niagara Networks boost their traffic visibility solution for mobile network security with GTP correlation by R&S®GSRM. The enhanced Niagara Networks solution now offers mobile network operators comprehensive network traffic intelligence that helps to optimize their network management and improve their quality of service and experience. Find out more in our case study.

Product brochure R&S®GSRM

By integrating R&S®GSRM (GTP Subscriber Resolving Module) as OEM software, vendors boost their solutions with reliable subscriber awareness. This subscriber-level traffic visibility empowers network packet brokers and IP probes with session-aware traffic aggregation, filtering and load balancing capabilities enabling mobile network operators to optimize network performance, manage quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) for their subscribers.

R&S®PACE 2 - First packet classification

First packet classification refers to the accurate and reliable classification of the very first packet of a flow, instead of waiting for at least 3 to 5 packets before the underlying application is identified. To enable first packet classification the advanced OEM DPI engine R&S®PACE 2 offers advanced caching techniques built on the intelligence developed from traditional DPI methods. This enables traffic policies to be meted out on the first packet itself, and implemented across all other ensuing packets for consistency, application-wide.

Report: Digital experience monitoring in the era of cloud and SaaS and the need for DPI intelligence

This research report is based on a survey of 22 leading digital experience monitoring (DEM) vendors. It focuses on the trends driving the shift to cloud and SaaS and on DEM as an emerging IT observability concept for today’s digital enterprises. It assesses the gaps in traditional IT monitoring and highlights the factors pushing the adoption of DEM.

Solution guide - Next generation deep packet inspection software

Next-generation DPI technology by ipoque provides granular insights into IP traffic by detecting protocols, applications and even application attributes and services (for example video, audio, chat or file transfers in a messaging client). Metadata extraction reveals specific information on speed, latency, user locations, jitter, bandwidth consumption, type of devices, etc. With a wide range of traffic classification methods, including port-based matching, pattern matching, behavioral analysis and statistical/heuristic analysis, the ipoque DPI technology provides more than standard DPI and delivers modern networks with what they need most – intelligence.