Paris, France (PRWEB) September 27, 2011
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is taking an increasingly strategic role in the Network Economy. The explosive volume and complexity of network traffic is making visibility more critical than ever before and driving vendors to outsource DPI development to an emerging category of specialized DPI vendors. These are the main conclusions of a major new industry survey conducted by Heavy Reading and commissioned by Qosmos in the summer of 2011 to gauge industry plans for and opinion about the use of embedded DPI.
DPI is a critical enabler for traffic management, security and quality of service, embedded in a wide range of software and hardware in telecommunications and increasingly in business as well. DPI parses network traffic into application data and protocols (instructions for the data), providing the visibility required to reduce the impact of P2P and video streaming on network performance; meet the demand for personalized services; manage mobile customers data usage; protect against viruses, spam and malware and DDoS attacks; implement new standards such as 3GPP Policy Control & Charging and comply with regulatory requirements.
The worldwide survey provides insight into the entire spectrum of vendors serving telecoms: 258 respondents represented 122 hardware and software companies. Among the key findings:
The use of DPI is ubiquitous in telecommunications. The larger the company, the more likely to find DPI technology already inside their portfolios: 80 percent of companies with revenues greater than $ 1B say they use DPI already; 50 percent of companies with revenues less than $ 50M use it today. Most of the rest were either firmly planning its use in the next 12 months or will consider it.
DPI is essential technology that will only grow in importance: Three out of four companies with revenues greater than $ 1Billion (and 2/3 of all respondents) consider DPI to be must-have technology. Fully 91 percent of all respondents agree that DPI is becoming more important to their product portfolio. With the imminent transition to 4G LTE, the requirement to develop fine-grained policies on a per-subscriber, per-service and per-application basis will become even greater, further enhancing the role of DPI and related technologies.
