Aricent and Rohde&Schwarz Unveil Bandwidth Control Solution at MWC

The companies Aricent and Rohde&Schwarz Cybersecurity have announced a technology solution to further enhance quality of service, traffic optimization and service charging. Their new product will be presented at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.

Aricent’s Traffic Detection Function capability now incorporates the deep packet inspection (DPI) engine R&S PACE 2, a state-of-the art DPI software library that uses different technologies to classify network protocols and applications. Network equipment vendors, as well as network and telecom operators around the world, rely on R&S PACE 2 to get full visibility into IP-based network traffic.

Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity network security technology will be made available as part of Aricent’s Evolved Packet Core (EPC) Software Framework and Aricent’s Intelligent Switching Solution. R&S PACE 2 has been integrated using dynamic filtering capability to help mobile operators and service providers raise situational awareness, activate differential bandwidth control and optimize network resources.

Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity and Aricent plan to collaborate on various areas including differentiated quality of service and services charging based on subscriber, application and flow awareness along with dynamic security orchestration and service function chaining using behavioral, heuristic and statistical analysis. They will also bring advanced & reflexive firewall rules management based on traffic and application awareness as well as advanced network monitoring to help maintain security posture of a software-definednetwork using machine learning algorithms.