Sinovatio, based in Shenzhen, China, is an established maker of surveillance products: lawful intercept devices, deep packet inspection, decryption, mobile location, forensics, social media OSINT harvesting and Big Data analytics. But is a comprehensive portfolio enough to overcome the poisonous environment surrounding Chinese IT following the recent spate of cyberattacks? … [Read more...]
ATIS UHER: Lawful Intercept With German Engineering, Swiss Precision
C5IS reviews Germany’s ATIS UHER, one of the world’s longest-running acts in lawful intercept (LI) and recording devices for military, public safety and air traffic control. Think German science & engineering and a number of feats come to mind: the theory of relativity, the modern binary system, discovery of radio waves, the first telephone transmitter and for that … [Read more...]
Packet Forensics: DPI With Law Enforcement — and NSA — in Mind
To law enforcement and government agencies, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is an essential commodity offered by scores of vendors with little to separate one from another -- unless perhaps the provider has the cachet of a Packet Forensics. Based in Tempe, Arizona, USA, Packet Forensics has built a successful livelihood around features that place it in the top ranks of companies … [Read more...]
India’s Vehere Takes on The West
Today C5IS focuses on Vehere, a provider of diverse lawful intercept products, as well as spectrum monitoring and cryptanalysis specific to military and national security needs. Founded in Kolkata in 2006, Vehere offers a lawful intercept suite that includes an enriched monitoring center, DPI probes, mobile location solutions, data retention, and capabilities in voice … [Read more...]
Rohde & Schwarz’s ipoque: A “Class Act” in DPI
Time was when Rohde & Schwarz’s subsidiary ipoque, one of the foremost makers of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solutions, was fairly open about the use of its technology for law intercept and national security. Then came the Snowden controversy. From that point on, where surveillance was concerned, one might say that ipoque went opaque. The company remains a strong player … [Read more...]