Napatech and ipoque to Improve Quality of Experience in Mobile Networks

COPENHAGEN, Denmark and LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Napatech (OSE: NAPA), the world's leading supplier of network analysis adapters, and ipoque, a leading provider of deep packet inspection (DPI) solutions, today announced a joint mission to improve quality of experience (QoE) in mobile networks using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. Napatech and ipoque are working together to provide high-speed, real-time application insight into LTE networks supporting voice and video services.

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Highlights:

• Video will continue to be the dominant bandwidth application in mobile networks, with 80-90 percent of all global consumer Internet traffic expected to be video (TV, VoD, Internet and P2P) by 2017, according to the Cisco VNI Forecast.
• Infonetics forecasts the number of voice over LTE (VoLTE) subscribers to grow at a 145 percent compound annual growth rate from 2012 to 2017.
• Napatech and ipoque will assist network equipment vendors to accelerate the identification, measurement and analysis of video and VoLTE services at high speed, under any conditions, with high reliability.
• The joint solution will:
  • Combine the power of Napatech's real-time network processing with ipoque's application recognition software up to Layer 7, which is critical for traffic steering of time sensitive VoLTE & video apps.
  • Enhance QoE and provide valuable analytics on mobile video and voice using key performance indicators in real time, such as call time establishment, bit rate, jitter, call completion rate, packet loss, call duration, video and/or VoLTE calls and more.
• Napatech and ipoque are currently engaged with key customers in deploying these capabilities today.
• Napatech and ipoque will provide performance showcases of the joint solution throughout 2014.

SUPPORTING QUOTES:
Dirk Czepluch, president and CTO, ipoque, said: 
"ipoque and Napatech have a proven track record in delivering high-performance solutions. ipoque's PACE DPI engine offers highly accurate application classification and performance in record time, accelerated time to market and easy integration for vendors, and is well suited to the performance demands of mobile networks."

Henrik Brill Jensen, CEO, Napatech, said:
"We are pleased to join forces with ipoque, one of the world's leading DPI vendors, in order to help network equipment vendors to provide better QoE for their customers. Our adapters' nanosecond precision enables extremely accurate measurements of time-sensitive services. This solution is another example of our commitment to deliver high-performance products that decrease time to market and risk."

Visit Napatech and ipoque at Mobile World Congress at booths 6K20 and 6B50 in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 24-27.

About ipoque
ipoque provides network intelligence and policy control solutions using DPI technology to help fixed and mobile operators to better understand traffic patterns, monetize new data services and improve the quality of experience for their subscribers. ipoque delivers the best DPI engine through our OEM solutions, enabling consistent application awareness for bandwidth and congestion control, prioritized quality of service delivery and detailed network visibility.

Network equipment providers use ipoque's deep packet inspection technology in their network security, optimization and network management products to analyze the data traffic of hundreds of millions of Internet users. ipoque was founded in 2005 in Leipzig, Germany, and became a Rohde & Schwarz company in 2011.

For more information, visit us at www.ipoque.com, or please contact:

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+49 341 59 40 30

About Napatech
Napatech is the leading supplier of real-time analysis adapters with over 140,000 Ethernet ports deployed worldwide. Designed for use with Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) servers, Napatech adapters enable rapid development of powerful appliances for high performance analysis. Napatech adapters guarantee real-time delivery of data at speeds up to 40 Gbps. Intelligent features allow network data analysis to be off-loaded, thereby accelerating application analysis for managing, securing and optimizing networks and services. When performance matters, the world's largest equipment vendors in telecom, enterprise, financial and government markets choose Napatech. Customers depend on Napatech for reliable delivery, complimentary maintenance and upgrades, and experienced global customer support. Napatech is headquartered in Copenhagen (Denmark) with offices in Mountain View, Andover, Washington D.C. (USA), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).

No Forward-Looking Statements
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