Broadband Traffic Management

Google [Still] Claims there is a Faster TCP

2012-01-28T03:30:00.000-05:00

Back in June 2010 I reported about Google's work on making the internet protocols (TCP, DNS) work faster (see "Google - [Our] TCP Can Do 12% Better" - here). A recent post by Yuchung Cheng (pictured), Make The Web Faster Team, to Google's Code blog provides now additional details. "Our research shows that the key to reducing latency is saving round trips .. [by] [1] Increase TCP initial

Monday's Guest Post: PCRF and Charging systems Integration Approaches

2012-01-27T10:00:00.023-05:00

A new guest post will be published on Monday. In his article, "Policy and Charging: The Value of Independence", my 10th guest, Doug Suriano, will discuss the integration of the policy server with charging and billing systems, that is emerging as one of the key considerations in the 3GPP Policy and Charging Control architecture. This architecture specifies several interfaces – Gx, Gy or Gz –

Optimization Market: Verizon Invests in Skyfire

2012-01-27T09:30:00.035-05:00

Skyfire management team Skyfire Labs announced that ".. it has raised $8 million in its Series C financing. Verizon Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc. participated in the round, alongside current investors .. Rocket Optimizer 2.0, the latest iteration of Skyfire’s powerful carrier-grade network video and data optimization platform, was launched in October 2011. With

Announcements: Azuki Helps Service Providers Manage OTT Media

2012-01-27T03:30:00.006-05:00

Azuki Systems announced "the next generation OTT video delivery solution framework that seamlessly extends service providers’ managed set-top-box services to multi-screens, at home and on-the-go, with equivalent user experience and zero impact to existing DOCSIS and IPTV infrastructure .. With Azuki, service providers can ensure unmanaged networks behave and perform like managed networks, with

Optimization Deployments [119]: Zimbabwe Online Use DiViNetworks to

2012-01-26T09:30:00.045-05:00

DiViNetworks announced that Zimbabwe Online (Zol) uses ".. DiViCloud – data capacity from Paris and London is served in Harare, Zimbabwe, without the need for additional physical capacity, and at half the market price". See more about DiViCloud - here. ZOL was founded in 1994, and in the 16 years of operation has grown into one of the largest ISPs in Zimbabwe it offers dialup, broadband,

O2 Uses Openwave to Insert Users' Mobile Numbers into HTTP Requests

2012-01-26T03:30:00.064-05:00

The press reports that Lewis Peckover, system administrator, Probability, found that O2 inserts customers' mobile number into HTTP headers (x-up-calling-line-id field) sent to web sites. Lewis even set a web page (here) for O2 users (or anyone else) to see that. This is a common mobile proxy gateway, generally known as "header insertion". According to the following article,

Saguna/Jet-Stream: Joint Acceleration and CDN Solution for Mobile Networks

2012-01-25T09:30:00.000-05:00

Saguna's Solution Architecture Saguna Networks (see "Saguna (Mobile RAN Optimization) Raised $1.5M" here) and Jet-Stream announced a ".. strategic collaboration between the two companies on the delivery of federated Content Delivery Network solutions for mobile networks .. providing an integrated offering that combines Saguna Networks’ Saguna CODS™ for optimizing the delivery cost of

Cache Deployments [118]: Pelephone [Israel] Deployed PeerApp

2012-01-25T03:30:00.058-05:00

While I was switching (last week) from Pelephone to a different mobile carrier, here in Israel, (the number was ported in 4 hours!), my old carrier "has deployed PeerApp’s UltraBand transparent caching platform in its network. UltraBand". According the PeerApp's announcement "UltraBand transparent caching platform helps Pelephone speed content delivery and reduce network load by

The BTM Survey Closes Today!

2012-01-25T00:42:00.000-05:00

I would like to thank those who took the time to participate in the Broadband Traffic Management Blog 2012 Survey - you are helping us understand what really matters in the traffic management space. The survey will be closed at end of day today, Wednesday, Jan 25th, So whether you work for an operator, a vendor of networking equipment, analyst firm or anyway else related to the space, please

DPI Deployments [117]: Regional Wireless Operators [US] Deployed Sandvine Fairshare

2012-01-24T11:30:00.005-05:00

Sandvine announced that ".. it has successfully deployed its Network Policy Control solutions in three North American wireless networks, BendBroadband, FRC/The Blue Zone and Main Street Broadband. All three operators became Sandvine customers in fiscal 2011 and provide fixed-wireless service using a variety of access technologies including WiMAX, satellite, 3G and 4G .. These regional

Bytemobile Update: "Current focus remains unchanged; MNOs will adapt monetization solutions"

2012-01-24T09:30:00.011-05:00

In the past few weeks there were certain rumors on Bytemobile. An anonymous comment made to one of my older posts (here) said the company laid off significant percentage of its staff; few days later, in an interview to Phil Goldstein from RCR wireless, a spokesperson for the company confirmed that "the company recently let go of a "very small percentage" of its staff .. the main reason for

UK 2012 Olympic Delegation: All Available Frequencies (and Athletes)

2012-01-24T03:30:00.058-05:00

Back in October I had a post predicting hard time for mobile services during the London Olympic Games this summer: "London mayor Boris Johnson, Three CEO David Dyson and others have warned that London will run out of mobile capacity within a year, and that the influx of visitors to the 2012 Olympics was likely to crash the existing networks" (see "A Year Before the Olympics - London is

Resource: Diameter Gy Interface Tutorial

2012-01-24T01:20:00.000-05:00

If you found the 3GPP Gx tutorial interesting (here), you probably want to learn also about its companion, Gy. Bart Barton explains Gy in his "LTE and Beyond" blog. "Gy is between Online Charging System (OCS) and PCEF. In most cases PCEF is based inside PDN GW (Packed Data Network Gateway) or just short PGW. Gy interface allows online credit control for service data flow based charging"

PCRF Market: Looks Strong in 2012 (Heavy Reading)

2012-01-23T09:59:00.000-05:00

A tweet by Graham Finnie (pictured), Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading: Chatting to a policy vendor CEO today... "We've been inundated with RFPs since Nov-- had more in 9 weeks than in the previous 9 months." PCRF Vendors .. you know what to do.

CRTC to Rogers: We Know what you are doing ..!

2012-01-23T09:30:00.048-05:00

Back in October, the Canadian regulator, CRTC, asked Rogers, the cable operator, to fix its DPI system, as it confuses games with P2P file-sharing (see "CRTC to Rogers: Fix your DPI System!" - here). This is not over yet, and the CRTC had to send another letter (here), this time by Andrea Rosen (pictured), Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer. ".. Based on the preliminary results of our

[Infonetics]: Femtocell Market to Reach $3B by 2015

2012-01-23T03:30:00.000-05:00

New research by Richard Webb (pictured), directing analyst for microwave, mobile offload and mobile broadband devices at Infonetics Research, finds that "Year over year (3Q10 to 3Q11), global femtocell revenue is up 37% and 4G LTE femtocells are expected to start shipping in late 2012". "Femtocell market leader Airvana is the first to break through the US$25 million quarterly revenue threshold,

Only 3 Days Left!

2012-01-23T02:52:00.000-05:00

I would like to thank those who took the time to participate in the Broadband Traffic Management Blog 2012 Survey - you are helping us understand what really matters in the traffic management space. The survey will be closed at end of day, Wednesday, Jan 25th - So whether you work for an operator, a vendor of networking equipment, analyst firm or anyway else related to the space, please

Resource: Diameter Gx Interface Tutorial

2012-01-22T09:30:00.043-05:00

If you need to better understand 3GPP's "LTE, 4G, MME, PGW, SGW, Interfaces and beyond" visit Bart Barton's "LTE and Beyond" blog. His recent post covers the Gx signaling protocol - "The Gx reference point is used for provisioning and removal of Policy and Charging Control (PCC) rules from the PCRF to the PCEF and the transmission of traffic plane events from the PCEF to the PCRF. The Gx

Arbor Networks: How Popular was Megaupload(2)?

2012-01-22T03:30:00.018-05:00

Jose Nazario, Senior Manager of Security Research, Arbor Networks, helps us to analyze if what " Friends of mine from elsewhere in the world have been joking that the Internet seems to be running a bit smoother today. That may be, given how much bandwidth appears to have been freed up." it true, line Sandvine did 2 days ago (here). ".. With enough global data, you can actually see the

Sandvine: How Popular was Megaupload?

2012-01-21T03:30:00.005-05:00

Matt Tooley, VP of Professional Services, Sandvine, published in the company's blog some statistics on the activity of Megaupload, the filesharing (or backup, if you wish) site that was shut down recently (you can see exactly when in the chart below). According to Sandvine, Megaupload - "counts for roughly 1% of total traffic on fixed access networks in North America. Also involved in the

Major ISPs will Participate in 2012 IPv6 Day

2012-01-20T09:30:00.000-05:00

The Internet Society announced that "Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012 [here] ..Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch

3UK: New Year's Mobile Traffic Growth: Voice +10%; SMS +28%; Data +471%

2012-01-20T03:30:00.000-05:00

While many mobile operators are concerned that OTT data services will cannibalize their legacy services revenues (see "Study: Majority of MNOs Worried of Revenues Decline due to OTT Applications" - here), 3 UK shows a different view. Data (unlimited for smartphones in their case) is rising, but traditional services are growing as well at least by the recent statistics, comparing New Year's

Security Announcements: ALU Integrated Arbor's DDoS Mitigation into its Routers

2012-01-19T09:30:00.147-05:00

Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks announced that are ".. offering a joint solution that provides advanced DDoS protection and security capabilities to help address this escalating challenge .. Service providers can deliver denial-of-service ‘scrubbing’ as a cloud-based service from the same platform as virtual private network (VPN) and business Internet services, with minimal incremental

DNS Blocking to be Removed from the SOPA Proposal

2012-01-19T03:30:00.003-05:00

US Congressman and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (pictured) announced a change to the SOPA ( Stop Online Piracy Act, here) proposal: "After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision. We will continue

Your Opinion Matters!

2012-01-19T00:56:00.000-05:00

I would like to thank those who took the time to participate in the Broadband Traffic Management Blog 2012 Survey - you are helping us understand what really matters in the traffic management space. The survey explores the current trends in DPI, policy management, Value-added Services, Over-the-Top competition and congestion management for mobile and fixed operators. The main focus is on HOW