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Mobile networks involve a large amount of data traffic and large numbers of subscribers (often in the hundreds of thousands and millions).
The different cybersecurity and traffic analytics tools will typically find the amount of traffic and the number of endpoints (subscribers) far too large for them to handle effectively.
Mobile networks are characterized by a decoupled user plane and control plane. The control plane carries the mobile signaling traffic, while the user plane the user data (which is the payload or content of communications). This means that, for a user data session to commence, the user session needs to first be established on the control plane. Changes, such as roaming and mobility or starting a VoLTE call while web browsing, all need to be established and communicated in the control plane before the user can start sending the actual traffic data. Analyzing user data plane traffic in and of itself does not divulge any subscriber-related information and analyzing the control- plane also does not divulge user traffic insights. Therefore, performing native security and traffic analysis without taking into consideration subscriber information, means that analyzing complete data flows of a subscriber not performed. This will often result in incorrect and inaccurate security analysis and performance metrics results.
Niagara Networks solution deployed in mobile Evolved Packet Core (EPC) to perform an intelligent inspection of the control plane to identify subscriber data sessions and to link them to specific user plane (data) traffic itself. Niagara Networks platform defines this process as a mobile subscriber correlation. The Open Visibility Platform empowered by mobile subscriber-aware traffic intelligence enables advanced correlation between the subscriber identifiers and attributes, and the subscriber actual data streams as they occur throughout each subscriber’s life-cycle usage on the mobile network.
Niagara Networks visibility solutions enable Mobile Network Operators (MNO) to easily and efficiently operate, administer and deliver the mobile subscriber traffic to multiple cybersecurity and monitoring tools with service scale and flexibility, while reducing operational expenses and downtime.
The full set of Niagara Networks visibility toolkit is the industry most advanced and deployed in large and complex networks worldwide with the following advantages:
Enables 100% visibility of mobile and wireline converged networks to ensure security posture across mobile domain
Highly flexible mobile traffic intelligence to efficiently operate and optimize traffic analysis
Advanced traffic filtering, packet slicing, packet deduplication, and application layer inspection
Ease of use and operational efficiency - NVC point & click single pane of glass for visibility provisioning and orchestration
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