DPI vendors start tuning for mobile networks

With controversy over deep packet inspection (DPI) deployments on wired broadband networks at an all-time high, mobile operators and their vendors are nonetheless moving forward to deploy DPI boxes to manage consumption of mobile broadband data services. Cam Cullen, director of Americas product management for Allot, says, ""The stats and visibility that DPI provides at the access and applications layer lets mobile operators build better service plans for congestion control and feed that data into mobile billing systems to support things like roaming and advice of charge." Mobile operators absolutely will turn to DPI, much like wireline broadband vendors, "to drive new revenue while assuring the proper levels of network management and security that broadband subscribers demand," said David Vorhaus, analyst for Yankee Group.