ipoque, a Rohde & Schwarz company and provider of industry-leading OEM deep packet inspection (DPI) software, on Tuesday announced a technology partnership with Niagara Networks — a pioneer in providing an open visibility platform for mobile networks.
By embedding a GTP subscriber resolving module from Rohde & Schwarz into their network packet broker offerings, Niagara Networks is able to bring mobile visibility with in-depth subscriber awareness into mobile networks. The subscriber-aware intelligence solution enables mobile operators to handle an enormous growth in subscriber data traffic and to establish and maintain high-quality user experience and security.
Through the technical partnership with Rohde and Schwarz, Niagara Networks’ platform is able to analyze the control plane to associate and correlate subscriber-aware user plane traffic.
The prerequisite for mobile network traffic analysis for security and performance is visibility into subscriber-aware traffic flows. Without this visibility, the analysis results and outputs from security, performance, and monitoring tools will be incorrect. Moreover, as mobile operators are faced with an exponential growth in subscriber traffic, the ability to intelligently load balance traffic loads between tools or to target traffic to different tools using flexible criteria becomes paramount.
With the new subscriber-aware mobile visibility solution, mobile operators and service providers can actively transform the management and monitoring of their networks to stay ahead of continually growing amounts of traffic, new real-time services, and complex subscriber behaviors. Niagara Networks provides the ability to add new or additional analytics, performance management, and security tools addressing the challenges in integrating, scaling, or aggregating disparate traffic as required to achieve a holistic view of each subscriber’s daily services and device usage.
Yoram Ehrlich, VP Products at Niagara Networks
By partnering with Rohde & Schwarz, we are able to ensure that our solution will handle the complex call flow scenarios correctly, accurately and in a timely manner. With Niagara Networks’ solution, mobile operator tools will get subscriber-aware traffic not 50% of the time or 80% of the time, but 100 % of the time – always.
Stephan Klokow, VP Engineering at ipoque, a Rohde & Schwarz company
We are pleased to work with Niagara Networks on their mobile visibility offering, harnessing our mobile network expertise in a way that enables operators to reduce costs and enhances their ability to address their growth challenges.
