C5IS reviews Silicom subsidiary Fiberblaze, a provider of “hardware acceleration” solutions that help law enforcement and government agencies overcome the challenges of intercepting VoLTE traffic. Last December, Danish hardware accelerator whiz Fiberblaze made headlines when it was plucked from the market by Silicom Ltd. of Israel. It was a good match. Silicom is an … [Read more...]
Procera Networks: On a Roll With Lawful Intercept DPI
C5IS reviews Procera Networks, a top-flight provider of DPI and Deep Content Inspection solutions for lawful enforcement, intelligence agencies -- and enterprise customers. Any analysis of the market for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) products begins with two words: profusion and confusion. The sheer array of vendors -- four key ones and at least 30 smaller contenders -- is … [Read more...]
Perfectly Legal: What China’s ZTE Really Sold to Iran
Rumors continue to crop up about ZTE's alleged sale of U.S. surveillance products to Iran, a deal involving some of the biggest names in American technology -- Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Oracle, Symantec and Hewlett Packard. The controversial sale hails all the way back to 2011 but was only disclosed this year when Reuters leaked word of an investigation by the FBI and … [Read more...]
Savvius: Network Forensics in Overdrive
C5IS takes a trip with Savvius, where real-time packet capture, decryption and analysis power the timeliness and value of evidence and intelligence. Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is among the most-widely used yet misunderstand technology applications in the tech world and surveillance communities today. Ask “got DPI?” and many vendors and customers automatically pipe up, … [Read more...]
Incognito Broadband Command Center: Not a Replacement for DPI
Canada’s Incognito Software is well regarded as a provider of OSS/BSS support for the communications service provider (CSP) industry, with a heavy emphasis on cable companies. But Incognito touts other skills, as well: the ability to collect customer IP data using a method the company claims to be more effective than Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). It's a bold claim, and not … [Read more...]