The ipoque blog

Energy efficiency and sustainability in telcos: How CSPs use DPI to cut costs and boost profits

Energy efficiency is vital in telecommunications, where communication service providers (CSPs) significantly impact global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Lightweight DPI technologies from ipoque provide real-time traffic visibility and data-driven optimization, allowing CSPs to enhance resource allocation and minimize energy waste. By utilizing these insights, CSPs can boost network sustainability while achieving long-term profitability and environmental goals.

Using AI-based deep packet inspection to power AI-driven networks

In traffic management, AI-powered predictive capabilities enable networking devices to align rules and policies to the future state, ensuring virtually zero policy lags, while removing potential over-corrections that are typical in automation frameworks. This blog post examines how ipoque’s DPI technology and encrypted traffic intelligence enable AI-powered networks to deliver superior predictions and improved outcomes.

The downside to decryption and why you need encrypted traffic intelligence

Often, networks run millions of decryption and re-encryption loops that come with various security, latency and performance implications. In our latest blog, we discuss the downside of decryption in traffic analysis, and how ipoque’s encrypted traffic intelligence (ETI) can be used to tackle even the most stringent encryption protocols without decrypting a single packet!

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.

DPI for ZTNA and SSE: Killing two birds with one stone

By providing real-time traffic intelligence, DPI creates a continuous adaptive context for user access policies, significantly increasing the security, intelligence, and efficiency of SSE components such as CASB, SWG and FWaaS, DPL, and SSL. This DPI-driven approach not only strengthens network access controls, but also reduces the workload of various tools, ensuring better cloud-based security outcomes and faster threat response.

Networking and cybersecurity vendors’ view on open-source DPI in 2024

This article highlights the key findings of our recent report, "State of open-source DPI: Challenges, opportunities and alternatives," including the factors driving the adoption of open-source DPI, as well as its challenges in terms of capabilities, performance, security, and long-term cost effectiveness. In addition, vendors can now make a seamless and rapid transition to commercial DPI tools, and in our article we examine how evolving business requirements influence the decision to migrate to commercial DPI and the role of custom migration tools in accelerating this transition.

How first packet classification drives application performance and security

This article explores the importance of first packet classification (FPC), as an enhancement to deep packet inspection (DPI), in handling URLLC and bandwidth-intensive applications, as well as critical apps used for enterprises, financial transactions and IoT. Apart from enhancing application performance and security, FPC’s instant traffic awareness drives application-based policies and accurate diagnostics for next-gen intelligent networks.

The role of deep packet inspection in zero trust network access

Embracing zero trust network access (ZTNA) for robust security? Deep packet inspection (DPI) holds the key! Dive into our exclusive article by guest author Roy Chua from AvidThink, exploring the synergy between DPI and zero trust network access (ZTNA) solutions. Uncover how DPI enhances threat defense and delivers unparalleled visibility in the age of remote work and cloud adoption.

DPI on-the-go: Network traffic visibility for in-vehicle networks (IVNs)

The future of automotive networking is full of possibilities - intuitive digital cockpits, V2X communications and a data-driven driving experience. This article discusses the growing visibility needs across in-vehicle networks. It explores the use of deep packet inspection in improving driver experiences, managing communications between different components and protocols, monitoring telematics and performance, and securing vehicles and cloud applications from cyber-threats such as data theft, malware and DDoS attacks.

Enhancing mobile experiences: DPI in 5G and 5.5G networks

As 5G-Advanced (5.5G) enters commercial use, mobile networks will usher vastly improved computing capabilities, enabling operators to boost existing use cases including 5G private networks, UAVs, FWA services and various XR/VR and multi-party, interactive applications. This article discusses how deep packet inspection (DPI) supports the evolution of 5G and 5.5G. It explores how real-time traffic classification information is used to enhance network slicing, cloud computing, edge processing and in-network computing. It also assesses how traffic visibility enhances personalized experiences and optimizes overall network performance.

Deliver cost-effective, high-performance network analytics with optimized DPI

Deep packet inspection (DPI) is essential for real-time visibility in modern IP networks, driven by escalating traffic volumes. As vendors innovate to meet demand, the DPI market offers a wide variety of solutions. When selecting a DPI solution, the critical factors are cost and performance. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis ensures alignment with long-term operational and financial needs, considering all expenses over the lifetime of the solution. Learn how DPI software from ipoque is optimized to reduce TCO and improve performance for today's demanding networks.

Towards zero downtime: DPI delivers new levels of visibility for application performance monitoring

Distributed environments and rapid CI/CD challenge APM tools that are crucial for ensuring optimal user experience and service levels. Next-gen DPI integrated into application performance monitoring (APM) solutions offers granular traffic insights for private, Cloud and SaaS applications, spanning traditional, virtualized, containerized and hybrid stacks. DPI’s real-time application and threat awareness enables APM tools to monitor, diagnose and resolve application issues, while leveraging AI-based automation to bring performance to the next-level.