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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.
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Complementing WiFi 6 technologies with DPI intelligence to make the best of both worlds
WiFi 6 provides the technical possibilities for enhancing the robustness, speed and security of ubiquitously networked computing. Deep packet inspection, in turn, improves the data foundation on which the technical capabilities of WiFi 6 are used. WiFi 6 and DPI are both useful on their own, but together, they function as complements that provide a real boost to any WLAN data network.
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Video streaming: networks and the game of bandwidth
It is evident that video streaming is on a fast track to becoming the new definition of the ‘Internet’, easily outdoing other bandwidth-intensive applications such as cloud gaming, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). The demand for video content seems to move in tandem with network speeds, given that better speeds translate into faster streaming and improved quality of experience (QoE). One of the immediate effects of a rapid increase in video traffic is the strain it puts on network resources, resulting in network congestion and poor network performance. While this impairs almost all applications to some degree, video takes the biggest hit given its dependency on real-time availability of bandwidth and speeds. What operators need now are the right tools that deliver the required intelligence, timely and accurately, to maintain the required QoE and to successfully deploy their video streaming strategies.
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Not a child's play: tackling online safety with DPI-enhanced parental controls
Excessive levels of unmonitored online activity among children could lead to cyber-bullying, potentially inappropriate contact with adults or adverse health effects. By implementing comprehensive parental control measures, operators are able to add value to their service plans, deliver a safer experience for customers and boost revenues and customer loyalty in the long run. How does network intelligence provided by DPI enables operators to provide these controls as part of their service?
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Tethering and the lure of data: How to make every byte count
While some CSPs have banned tethering altogether, others have threaded the path with caution by including extended terms and conditions in their service plan agreements. However, monitoring limitations and lack of transparency can render plan rules ineffective. Having real-time insights on tethering activity therefore not only allows CSPs to enforce what is agreed in their plans, but it also allows them to learn about subscriber sharing behavior and use this to expand their offerings for multi-device subscribers.
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Cutting up the perfect piece: DPI-enhanced traffic intelligence for 5G network slicing
Unlike its predecessor networks, 5G involves network slicing which overlays logical networks on a common infrastructure, creating different ‘slices’ that act as separate networks. This article discusses the need for real-time traffic intelligence for 5G network slicing. It explains 5G network slicing, the 5G usage classes and how real-time intelligence provided by DPI enables the creation and implementation of various traffic management policies as well as how it supports network optimization and monetization.
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DPI-driven application and protocol classification
As the internet is at the center of more and more business, application awareness will be needed even more to enable optimal distribution of network content. New and intensified security threats will emerge as business and commerce virtualize. This article discusses how an advanced DPI engine featuring port-based matching, pattern matching and encrypted traffic intelligence can enhance the monitoring performance, security and monetization of networks.
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Six reasons why DPI is better than DNS analysis
As networks evolve and encryption becomes more prevalent, traditional DNS analysis is struggling to keep up. While DNS provides essential insights into domain activity, its limitations leave gaps in security and traffic visibility. DPI fills these gaps by providing a more complete view of network activity, ensuring both stronger security and better performance. Learn how DPI goes beyond DNS queries to analyze every packet of data, even in encrypted traffic.
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Enhancing network visibility for SD-WAN in the era of cloud and SaaS
One of the most touted benefits of SD-WAN is the execution of network policies via dynamic provisioning of network services such as firewalls, load balancers and session controllers. With SD-WAN, centrally controlled orchestrators can now control network functions remotely, allowing network services to respond instantaneously to the type of application that is being delivered. However, to respond to the demands of the traffic and dynamically provision network services by application types, networks require network visibility through application awareness. Identifying an application, its attribute or its application family allows networks to become intelligent enforcing corresponding policies.
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Managing HetNets: How application awareness drives intelligent mobile data offloading decisions
Mobile data offloading helps operators optimize network capacity, improve network performance, enhance service quality and provide ubiquitous connectivity. Deep packet inspection is key in enabling intelligent traffic offloading: It offers real-time identification of the underlying traffic — whether it is latency-sensitive, mission-critical or bandwidth-intensive — paving the way for enhanced network performance, and service quality.
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