Broadband Traffic Management

Julius Jenachowski: Net Neutrality will be "an ongoing issue for the F.C.C. and for Congress"

2013-05-19T09:30:00.000-04:00

Nicholas Thompson, interviewed Julius Jenachowski (pictured), former FCC chairman to The New Yorker, with a number of references to net neutrality: "But virtually every consumer has three alternative cable providers and two satellite providers. Many have access to a telephone provider like FiOS or A.T. & T. U-verse. It’s one of the reasons that we pushed so hard on net neutrality and keeping

NI Deployments [250]: TIM [Brazil] Uses Commprove to Control LTE Performance

2013-05-19T03:30:00.000-04:00

CommProve announced an ".. LTE network monitoring expansion contract in South America with TIM Brasil worth $1.2million .. TIM Brasil is deploying CommProve’s performance management platform, CommProve GSP, in its network. GSP captures statistical counters from across the monitored network and will then provide TIM with the aggregated information in a powerful data set for network management

TM Deployments [249]: Mobily [Saudi Arabia] Uses Ericsson SSR 8000

2013-05-18T09:30:00.000-04:00

According to Mobily annual report (here), in 2012 "Data traffic on wireless broadband network services grow from 163 to 750 terabyte per day". Probably in order to accommodate this demand to traffic, Mobily has upgraded its core wireless netwrok. Telecom Lead reports that "Mobily has selected Ericsson to provide Evolved Packet Core networks in the western region of the Kingdom. The Ericsson

AT&T 1-800 Maybe Based on Advertising Revenue Sharing

2013-05-18T03:30:00.000-04:00

Since February 2012, we have seen a number of statements from AT&T about 1-800 mobile data service: AT&T Considers "1-800" Model for Mobile Data ; AT&T CEO: 1-800 Data will "Catch Fire in the Next 12 Months" and AT&T Asks Subscribers about 1-800 Data Service). Whether the December survey showed support or not, Sue Marek reports to FierceWireless that "AT&T Chairman and CEO, Randall

U.S. Department of State RFI for DPI

2013-05-17T09:30:00.001-04:00

The U.S. Department of State (DoS) is in ".. search of potential sources for Deep Packet Capture and Inspection (DPCI). The scope of the envisioned Deep Packet Capture and Inspection (DPCI) solution is to provide the following high-level functionality: Capture 100 % of all network packets traversing the borders of the DoS’ Points of Presence (POPs). Perform rapid classification and analysis of

[ABI]: 10B Wireless Devices today, 30B in 2020

2013-05-17T03:30:00.000-04:00

7B people, 10B wireless devices, 30B in 2020. Not all cellular, but still plenty to manage and control. Peter Cooney, practice director, ABI Research recent research finds that "Internet of Everything (IoE) shows that there are more than 10 billion wirelessly connected devices in the market today; with over 30 billion devices expected by 2020". See "More Than 30 Billion Devices Will

Sandvine: UBB Reduces FileSharing Consumption

2013-05-16T09:30:00.000-04:00

Sandvine has just published its “Global Internet Phenomena Report 1H2013”. Dave Caputo, CEO, Sandvine said: "We predict from this data that 2013 will be the year long-form video will make its move onto mobile networks, The “home roaming” phenomenon, the concept of subscribers voluntarily offloading mobile traffic onto Wi-Fi networks, has continued. This combined with increased consumption of

CDN Deployments [248]: TeliaSonera Partners with EdgeCast

2013-05-16T03:30:00.000-04:00

EdgeCast Networks and TeliaSonera announced a ".. managed CDN agreement that will bring new site acceleration and CDN solutions to TeliaSonera’s customer base while expanding the reach and capacity of the EdgeCast network .. TeliaSonera will offer solutions to achieve great web performance and scalability for websites and applications to the Nordic enterprise market. For media and

[Infonetics]: SDM Market Looks for Strong Analytics; to Reach $1.8B by 2017;

2013-05-15T09:30:00.000-04:00

Shira Levine (pictured), directing analyst for service enablement and subscriber intelligence, Infonetics Research, updated its Subscriber Data Management Software and Services market size and forecast report concluding that "the global subscriber data management market, including software and services for mobile and fixed-line networks, grew 45% in 2012 to $792 million .. will reach $1.8B

Tekelec Enhances PCRF with VoLTE, Wi-Fi and more

2013-05-15T03:30:00.001-04:00

Tekelec launched a new version of its PCRF product. Among the new features: "Create and quickly introduce flexible offers using dynamic quotas .. Introduce and scale Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services .. Enhance support for Wi-Fi services .. Improve customer service with unprecedented analytics and Prioritize communications for first responders during emergencies". See "Tekelec Policy Server

Amdocs Announces Virtualized PCRF

2013-05-14T09:30:00.000-04:00

Amdocs announced the "industry's first complete, virtualized network control offering. The new virtualized deployment options for Amdocs' suite of network control products enable service providers to accelerate the introduction of new services while taking full advantage of standard off-the-shelf hardware to reduce costs. The virtualization solution will be supported on key Amdocs network

Ericsson, NSN and Huawei Form the OSS interoperability initiative

2013-05-14T03:30:00.001-04:00

A new partnership, OSSii – Operations Support Systems interoperability initiative, was "founded in May 2013 to promote OSS interoperability between different OSS vendor’s equipment. Operations Support Systems integrate to a variety of telecom network technologies from several equipment vendors as well as the telecom operator business systems, making the integration of OSS a complex and costly.

ESPN Prepares for 1-800 Mobile Data Service with US MNO

2013-05-13T09:30:00.000-04:00

I've already covered some use cases of "1-800" data services (Facebook, Wikipedia) - but this time it seems to be on a much larger scale, that might cause the FCC to look again at the Net Neutrality rules for wireless services. Phil Goldstein reports to FierceWireless (based on WSJ story) that "Sports media giant ESPN has talked with at least one large U.S. carrier about subsidizing

Survey: "mobile broadband quality is a key deciding factor in their choice of operator"

2013-05-13T03:30:00.000-04:00

A recent survey by Nokia Siemens Networks finds that the "The number of people likely to switch mobile operators is now 39% globally and has jumped by more than 20% in one year .. the study underscores the importance of both Internet quality, which has become a deciding factor in the choice of operators in mature markets, and voice quality, which is key in other markets". NSN surveys "8,700

BT Discusses Traffic

2013-05-12T09:30:00.000-04:00

Several slides from BT's earning call:

Procera's Q1: 39% of Revenues from Cox and Shaw

2013-05-12T03:30:00.002-04:00

In its recent SEC filling (here), Procera Networks reports that "For the three months ended March 31, 2013, revenue from Cox Communications, Inc. represented 22% of net revenue and revenue from Shaw Communications, Inc. represented 17% of net revenue, with no other single customer representing more than 10% of net revenue. For the three months ended March 31, 2012, revenue from Shaw

[ABI]: DPI and Optimization go to the Edge

2013-05-11T09:30:00.001-04:00

A new report by Joe Hoffman (pictured), principal analyst, ABI Research finds that "4G networks are launching fast and moving to a flat and distributed hierarchy. Dictated by performance needs, data management is moving closer to the network edge. The historical paradigm for mobile networks is the hierarchical and centralized core network .. This gives rise to the specialist DPI and

[Heavy Reading] DPI and PCC Market to Reach $2.85B by 2017

2013-05-11T03:30:00.000-04:00

Graham Finnie [pictured], Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading reports that "Our updated forecast for the network operator policy control and DPI market is out, and the very strong growth we reported previously continues apace. We measured the market in 2012 at US$1.24 billion, slightly ahead of our previous projection, as many vendors enjoyed a buoyant second half; that seems to be continuing into the

Tilera and Qosmos Offer Integrated DPI Solution

2013-05-10T09:30:00.000-04:00

TILEncore-Gx Tilera Corporation and Qosmos announced the ".. availability of high-performance integrated solutions for Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), combining TILE-Gx processors with the Qosmos ixEngine software development kit. The solution leverages Tilera’s TILE-Gx processor family [here] with devices ranging from 9 cores up to 72 cores as

How does Netflix Use and Manage DNS to Improve Service?

2013-05-10T03:30:00.000-04:00

Continuing my mini-series on "How does Netflix Manage Video Delivery?" (here, here) - and this time: how do they manage their DNS entries to allow dynamic updates? A blog post by Adrian Cole (pictured) explains: "During 2013 we have been working on the components needed to automate DNS configuration changes. This will let us send customers to more than one region in the cloud, and switch

DiViNetworks Adds Sandvine's DPI to its Cloud Service

2013-05-09T09:30:00.000-04:00

DiViNetworks adds traffic management policy enforcement to its existing cloud-based optimization (see "DiViNetworks Offers Cloud-Based Optimization Service" - here) solution. The new service is a new aspect of its partnership with Sandvine (see also "Sandvine Partners with DiViNetworks" - here). The company announced ".. Traffic Management in the Cloud using technology from Sandvine, a

Allot's US Tier1 MNO $9M Order: "not a classical DPI"

2013-05-09T03:30:00.001-04:00

Rami Hadar (pictured), President and CEO, Allot Communications provided some details on a large deal with a large US Tier 1 MNO during the company's Q1 earning call: "The booking momentum in Q1 continued in the current quarter as we opened the second quarter with a $9 million follow-on order from our U.S. Tier 1 service provider for Value-Added Service offering. We are pleased with the

[CTIA 2012 Survey]: Data +69%, Voice +0.2%; SMS -4,9%

2013-05-08T09:30:00.000-04:00

CTIA published its its semi-annual survey, providing information on both investments made in the US wireless networks and usage information. "U.S. wireless providers increased their annual network investments from $25.3 billion in 2011 to $30.1 billion in 2012 (up 19 percent). The $30.1 billion is the highest amount since the survey began in 1985, which is approximately 25 percent of the

Procera's Use-Cases for New Real-Time Analytics

2013-05-08T03:30:00.000-04:00

Procera Networks announced the availability of "Dynamic LiveView, the industry’s first real-time, dynamic query capability for network analytics .. Dynamic LiveView builds upon the sophisticated awareness capabilities already built into Procera’s Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) system .. Dynamic LiveView software is packaged with Procera’s PacketLogic™ IPE systems with no additional

Active Broadband Brings PCMM and PCRF Together

2013-05-07T09:30:00.000-04:00

Active Broadband Networks announced that its "Active Resource Manager supports the IMS Rx interface as specified in PacketCable 2.0, paving the way for the delivery of IMS services over DOCSIS networks by providing support for PCMM policy control via the Diameter-based Rx interface. Active Broadband supports PacketCable 2.0 policy control in the company's Active Resource Manager (ARM) platform,