We often talk about the big brands on the internet and their dominance. Last year, I did a spotlight on Asia that showed that Google was over 40% of the connections in Asia, and in the mobile report, Facebook was...
By Elina Edefalk December 21, 2017
Dear Santa...
The telco world has been good all year. We’ve behaved, more or less. We only have one ask, and that is to get to a standard based NFV environment, such that all vendors can contribute and we can finally get the cost savings and flexibility we were promised. As such, can we please have a MANO stack that follows the ETSI NFV spec.
Pretty...
By Elina Edefalk November 15, 2017
In an industry - and possibly world - first, Sandvine has demonstrated the use of a portion of the actual SOL-002 protocol as defined by ETSI NFV.
By Dan Geiger - Senior Director, Corporate Communications and Partner Marketing November 6, 2017
We are so jaded by new, over-hyped "opportunities" that we sometimes don't recognize when new ideas do begin to work. The monetization of subscriber data is one area where providers are starting to get traction.
Topics: Application intelligence, Subscriber, Monetization
By Dan Deeth November 1, 2017
Since our report on the “fully-loaded” Kodi ecosystem, we have been digging deeper into research types of video piracy, and today we released a new report on an emergent form of subscription television piracy that aims to replicate the live television experience offered by cable and satellite providers for approximately $10 USD a month.
Topics: Internet phenomena
By Cam Cullen - VP of Global Marketing September 22, 2017
I wanted to share some thoughts on the just closed combination of Procera and Sandvine, and provide you with what we are going to be doing going forward. Below is content from a document that we are sharing on our Deal Update Page
Topics: Network intelligence, Sandvine, Automation
By Dan Geiger - Senior Director, Corporate Communications and Partner Marketing August 30, 2017
The Mirai Botnet attacks in late 2016 gave us a real world view into the massive threat posed by the proliferation of unsecure IoT devices. Over the course of several attacks, hundreds of thousands of IoT devices were high-jacked to silence a popular Internet security website, take millions of Internet users offline by flooding DYN DNS servers, and to...
By Dan Deeth August 3, 2017
The explosion of mobile VoIP applications has helped to introduce a new type of Interconnect Bypass fraud, which exploits SS7 interconnect agreements and is often referred to as OTT Voice Bypass fraud. OTT Voice Bypass fraud is on the rise thanks to the exploitation of an “In Calling” feature available on some VoIP apps. “In Calling” allows a subscriber...
By Tony Parrell July 25, 2017
I would argue that very few people could take a random selection of Lego blocks, throw them across the table and in a matter of a couple hours, assemble the Millennium Falcon. For such a complex goal, you would need the right pieces, in the right amount, supported by a detailed set of instructions to get the outcome you want, even then, it may become an...
