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Testing Opportunity: DPI
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June 2008
Published By:
Frost & Sullivan
Page Count:
50
Order Code:
R1-6476
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This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Testing Opportunity: DPI provides an overview of the overall DPI test equipment market including market drivers and restraints, analysis of the market based on geographic regions, market forecasts, and market opportunities and recommendations.
Demand for Third-party Validation Drives Sales of Deep Packet Inspection Test Equipment
The deep packet inspection (DPI) test equipment market is all set to experience a spurt in demand with service providers (SPs) increasingly demanding third-party validation of DPI tools. DPI vendors had used in-house platforms for DPI testing until 2007, but with SPs benchmarking the capabilities of various DPI vendors, third-party tools have become necessary for an impartial analysis. "As SPs continue to roll out DPI solutions and applications, they would like to know the efficacy of their DPI solutions," says the analyst of this research service. "SPs also need to make sure if the DPI tools work according to specifications and applications parameters."
SPs’ desire to guarantee quality of service (QoS) is especially boosting the demand for DPI test equipment for voice and video traffic. It is essential for SPs to offer superior QoS on every application and eliminate issues such as peer-to peer (P2P) traffic and bit-error, giving DPI test equipment vendors reasons to be hopeful. These vendors have opportunities to promote existing testing technologies in line with SPs’ need to test DPI tools. However, they have to create an authentic environment with both kinds of traffic - classifiable and non-classifiable - to conduct realistic and repeated testing. They will achieve further success by ensuring shorter time to market.
Need to Classify Different and Novel Types of Traffic Creates a Case for DPI Test Equipment
DPI test equipment’s ability to accurately classify traffic is expected to stand it in good stead and its capability to achieve this in realistic scenario, while emulating the behavior of thousands of subscribers, will be particularly valuable. With the deployment of DPI devices, SPs will be looking to better manage their bandwidth in order to deliver more revenue-generating services such as video. While aiming to offer better QoS for video and voice services, SPs will also be hoping to provide excellent end-user experience for other services such as P2P and gaming media. Currently, although the P2P still accounts for the highest percent of broadband subscriber growth, SPs are not able to block the traffic or streamline it in a way that helps them manage the available bandwidth smartly.
The networks have to constantly deal with new types of bandwidth-heavy traffic of unknown sources. The multitude of applications and services on offer makes it difficult for both SPs and test and measurement vendors to keep tabs on the traffic. "DPI test equipment cannot test services or devices in isolation because that would mean that they are dealing with just one type of traffic," notes the analyst. "In order to really test the service, vendors have to simulate multiple types of traffic that truly reflect the real subscriber or network environment and have to perform other services simultaneously in the same environment."
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