Infonetics Research: Mobile Momentum Drives Deep Packet Inspection Market to 34% CAGR through 2016
The service provider deep packet inspection (DPI) market is forecast by Infonetics Research to grow at a 34% compound annual growth rate from 2011 to 2016, driven by the increased use of DPI in wireless networks.
Infonetics' biannual DPI report said product revenue is on track to pass the $600-million mark this year. Mobile operators are deploying DPI hand-in-hand with LTE for more granular traffic management and to enable value-added services, tiered services, and sophisticated pricing models.
Infonetics expects operators to push DPI deeper into the access network and eventually to the device level via enforcement agents that enable greater network and service control on smartphones, tablets, and set-top boxes
"Traffic management is still the primary use case for DPI technology, but we're seeing a growing interest in folding DPI into larger solutions, such as video optimisation, content caching, and usage-based billing," notes Shira Levine, directing analyst for service enablement and subscriber intelligence at Infonetics Research.
"This 'DPI inside' approach provides operators with the visibility into network traffic needed to enable new service models and pricing plans and to support new architectures like software-defined networks (SDNs)," Levine added.
Infonetics' biannual DPI report provides worldwide and regional market size, market share, forecasts, analysis, and trends for standalone deep packet inspection products used in wireless and fixed-line service provider networks. Companies tracked include Allot, Arbor, Cisco, CloudShield, Huawei, Procera, Qosmos, Sandvine, and others. To buy the report, contact Infonetics sales.