Sandvine named worldwide market leader for standalone DPI product revenue

Infonetics Research has released its Service Provider Deep Packet Inspection Products Market Outlook, tracking vendors such as Allot, Arbor, Bivio, Cisco, CloudShield, Procera, Narus, NIKSUN, Sandvine, and Qosmos.

The market share and forecast report tracks standalone DPI solutions and vendors, and found that Sandvine, Cisco, and Allot lead in the fast-growing standalone deep packet inspection (DPI) market.

The report, which provides market size, vendor market share, forecasts, and analysis for standalone DPI products, tracked data from North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, and CALA (Central and Latin America), plus worldwide totals and market share. Read More!

Written by Sandvine’s Matt Tooley

Each year around January, the world waits in anticipation to see what big electronics companies have in store for the coming months in terms of the latest in computers, gadgets and home entertainment. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is akin to “Disney Land” for all gadget aficionados with a handful of new solutions grabbing a predominate portion of the media’s attention. This year the buzz centers on Google’s Nexus One, a new smart phone deemed by many as the “iPhone Killer” (doubtful it will knock iPhone off its perch – but we shall see). Flying a bit under the radar at this year’s show yet gaining tremendous traction in the real-world marketplace are solutions for blending the Internet with television.

Early talk about IPTV positioned the technology as the telco’s secret weapon for entry into a space cable operators have forever dominated. Now, cable operators themselves are looking towards Internet based television as an avenue for lucrative service offerings with many analysts and industry experts touting it as the next big thing in cable. Helping cultivate this push, equipment vendor Cisco Systems announced in late 2009 Cisco Blue, an interactive guide for cable-based IPTV set top boxes based on a Web-browser where widgets pull data from various sources such as Yahoo News or Twitter allowing subscribers to easily use their television to interact with the Internet. In addition, Arris demonstrated how IPTV- over-DOCSIS 3.0 can deliver more than 50 percent in bandwidth savings over traditional RF QAM channels.

Now that video and audio streaming already constitute 27 percent of all global Internet traffic (based on Sandvine’s 2009 report analyzing over 20 million broadband subscribers) the need for a much smarter and efficient Web will become even more critical as potentially millions of new Internet- enabled sets plug in. Internet-based TV has a great potential to not only modify the way the Web is managed, but to turn market sectors such as advertising on its head just by the very nature that people will watch their shows and interact with others online.

Much like how IP voice communications was slow to take off, and at one time even scoffed at due to quality of experience issues as a result of jitter and latency, Internet-based TV has experienced the same slow start. We are however at a tipping point where it is no longer a matter of “if” but “when” IPTV will surpass traditional television services – and that’s a story much more worthy of media buzz than the latest smart phone.

Californians can’t drive. Not trying to offend anyone born in “The Golden State” – it’s a fact recently confirmed by a national study conducted by GMAC Insurance. Not surprisingly California ranked the fourth worst state behind New York, New Jersey and Hawaii. Don’t take my word for it – try driving to LA from San Diego, a drive that could take anywhere from an hour and fifteen minutes to four hours depending on how many folks are driving slow in the fast lane, slowing to stare at the guy changing his tire, or who for the life of me can’t seem to master the art of the merge.

Recently, while sitting in rush hour congestion ready to pull my hair out I had an epiphany; this is exactly how an IP voice packet must feel as it tries to steer around bandwidth hogging applications like peer to peer (P2P) or streaming video. This poor packet just wants to make it to its destination receiver and in under 250 milliseconds or his contribution to the phone conversation won’t matter. But he can’t because everyone else is slowing him down.

This is the general basis of the net neutrality debate. Although road congestion is getting worse as the population grows– can you image the highways without road signs, stop lights, or lane assignments? Everything would come to a screeching halt – the roads would become one giant parking lot. Without network management and enforced policy control our Internet highways stand the same fate. In a perfect world net neutrality is a great idea but unrealistic especially as applications like P2P continue to grow upwards and to the right.

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