Visibility Solutions for Wireless Service Providers
Mobile service providers have too much traffic to analyze and too little budget to spend on tools. The use of GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) presents a traffic distribution challenge, and the transition to 5G/CUPS is accelerating the application of NFV and SSL encryption. Adding more tools to keep up increases complexity and is cost prohibitive.
Take charge with Gigamon solutions that enable you to:
- Gain visibility into subscriber activity at service provider scale
- Slash monitoring costs to help increase average profitability per user
- Enable smooth migrations from 4G/LTE to LTE CUPS and 5G
- Gain visibility into Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs)
The Gigamon Visibility Platform features four key applications that can be combined to help you scale infrastructure analytics and management.
Reliably correlate and pass subscriber traffic to appropriate tools with GTP and SIP/RTP correlation, flow sampling and IMSI-based balancing.
Selectively decrypt encrypted sessions with SSL/TLS decryption, selectively reduce traffic volume with packet de-duplication and packet slicing and dynamically hide sensitive data with data masking.
Conditionally forward aggregate traffic to monitoring and security applications.
Continuously access traffic between physical and virtualized network functions with network tapping, virtual tapping and packet brokering.
Scale Infrastructure Analytics and Management to Support Evolution to 5G
Optimize tooling investment while delivering new subscriber performance and services
Challenges solved
- Traffic volume is overwhelming analytic probe capacity, with 5G dramatically exacerbating the issue
- Control and user data separation (CUPS) demanding new virtualized infrastructure
- Excessive spend on infrastructure tooling and telemetry solutions
Benefits
- Architect, deploy and operate holistic analytic strategy that scales to 5G levels of performance
- Lower cost-of-ownership; lower OpEx
- Improved satisfaction of subscribers; improved competitive differentiation
Access to and Control of Data for Improved Visibility Everywhere
Manage, monitor and control network communications across physical, virtual and distributed environments
Challenges solved
- Limited visibility and lack of network-traffic control across diverse environments (physical, virtual, private cloud)
- Multiple business units unable to share the same network-traffic and subscriber data
- Analytic probes failing to keep up with growth in traffic; focused on low-value or irrelevant network-traffic
Benefits
- Improved ability to migrate from 4G/LTE to LTE CUPS and 5G network architectures
- Faster rollout of new subscriber services and product offerings; faster time to value
- Improved utilization of resources, reducing cost of infrastructure
Improve and Differentiate Through the Subscriber Experiences
Reduce churn and increase subscriber adoption by optimizing quality, breadth and relevance of service
Challenges solved
- Subscriber product needs are unclear; incomplete understanding of network usage
- Challenging to keep up with evolving competitive landscape and emerging technology
- Transformational technologies (NFV-SDN, 5G-CUPS, private cloud) are limiting visibility and insight
Benefits
- Improved customer experience and adoption of new service offerings
- Increased infrastructure uptime and quality of services
- Improved subscriber, service-quality and business metrics
INFOGRAPHIC
Subscriber-Aware Intelligence
Deliver network intelligence faster. Build new business models.
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Intelligent Traffic Management for Service Monetization
Overcome the challenges of a rapidly changing communications industry with intelligent traffic management.
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De-Risking New Service Provider Deployments
Comprehensively monitor your new technologies during rollout.
“Not only are Gigmon’s products quite easy to configure and deploy, they provide us cost savings in multiple ways.”
Bengt Bengtsen • Mobility Team Project Leader • TDC Group
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TRAFFIC INTELLIGENCE
Flow Mapping
Granular filtering and forwarding.
TRAFFIC INTELLIGENCE
GTP Correlation
Monitor subscriber data in GPRS Tunneling Protocol tunnels.
TRAFFIC INTELLIGENCE
FlowVUE®
Provide subscriber IP-based flow sampling.
VIRTUALIZATION
NFV Visibility
Acquire and deliver relevant traffic to your tools from your virtualized network services.
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