Application Quality of Experience

As network and application usage shifts on a daily basis, service providers are looking for new ways to analyze, optimize, and monetize applications so they can deliver high quality consumer and enterprise experiences. This requires changes on three critical fronts:

 

Maintaining accurate visibility of application and network traffic

Encryption renders most existing data collection methods ineffective. As the Internet continues to go dark, a new approach is needed to maintain a high-level of application and network intelligence, but also to ensure accurate charging and sustained profitability for highly valuable services.

 

Understanding contextual Application Quality of Experience

Running a profitable network requires a deep understanding of how critical applications, such as video, gaming, social sharing, and enterprise applications are performing. However, most service providers lack the context and the associated key performance indicators needed to truly determine application quality of experience (QoE).

 

Scaling to meet performance and volumetric requirements

As video shifts to HD and 4K streaming, cloud gaming grows in popularity, and new smart workplace and industry applications gain traction, bandwidth usage is exploding with little additional revenues. Meeting this challenge on the data plane requires hyper-scalable software solutions optimized to run in flexible cloud, virtual, and physical deployment models.

Sandvine’s cloud-based Application and Network Intelligence portfolio and pre-packaged use cases help customers analyze, optimize, and monetize application experiences using contextual machine learning-based insights and real-time actions. Market-leading classification of more than 95% of traffic in real time across mobile and fixed networks by user, application, device, and location significantly enhances interactions between users and applications.

 

Sandvine is deployed by over 200 of the largest service providers globally, serving over 2.5 billion users in more than 100 countries. These service providers choose Sandvine on a daily basis for the following reasons:

 

Global Internet Authority 
The leading authority on the continuously evolving internet phenomena dominating global networks

Application and Network Intelligence-Based Solutions
Combines unparalleled application visibility with contextual awareness to deliver complete and comprehensive solutions in key areas: Video, Gaming, Social Sharing, Enterprise Managed Services, and Internet of Things

Best Real-Time Application and Network Data for Inline Actions
Real-time, high-definition granularity with the industry’s most accurate application classification

Single Pane of Glass 
Sandvine’s Application and Network Intelligence (ANI) Portal visualizes contextual data, and provides unique application and network QoE scoring metrics critical for improving performance

Proven Leadership for Real-Time Actions
Trusted for over 20 years in large scale communications networks as the ‘internal engine’ for intelligent policy control and mitigation

Analytics-Driven Automation 
Automation-based use cases drive decisions and actions in a closed-loop cycle, and deliver operational savings and improved efficiency to solve current and future application and network challenges