Sandvine Introduces Industry's First Service Innovation and Intelligence Portfolio for 5G, Cloud and Edge Networks

Sandvine, a market leader in cloud-based service innovation and intelligence solutions, today announced the supply of the industry's first 5G Service Innovation and Intelligence portfolio. The portfolio is meant to assist service and cloud providers capture the 5G smart ecosystem opportunity and deliver exceptional digital experiences. It includes a cloud-native 5G Service Intelligence Engine (NWDAF), unique pre-packaged use cases, and highly enriched real-time data and insights that provide value throughout the technology lifecycle. These capabilities help customers see, optimize, monetize and protect networks, also as suit regulations.

The portfolio's 5G intelligence software and smart analytics classify over 95% of network traffic – the simplest within the industry. It provides contextual insights on users, how and where services are getting used within and across network slices, and anticipates future needs. This data-first approach is critical to satisfy stringent 5G service level agreements for speed, latency, and reliability and generate revenues from network slices-as-a-service. The portfolio also includes 5G-enabled real-time policy capabilities to personalize consumer, enterprise, and IoT services.

Sandvine's vendor-agnostic portfolio is out there for customer deployments in June 2021 and delivers on three pillars of 5G success:

5G service innovation uses ML-based intelligence from billing, charging, customer care, operations, and other data sources, and real-time policy controls to personalize, assure and optimize services. By analyzing usage, location, and repair plan trends, Sandvine's 5G Maestro Policy Engine and ActiveLogic traffic classification platform can guide new 5G service and slice creation to best fit consumer and enterprise needs.

5G transition ensures service continuity, optimized traffic management, and capacity planning across 4G and 5G networks via contextual visibility into service quality, adoption, usage patterns, location, and demographics. The company's Active Network Intelligence (ANI) portal allows customers to watch user and usage trends on different networks and slices to enhance performance, predict traffic patterns, and plan network and cloud deployments.

5G Automation brings machine learning (ML) and hyper-scalability to 5G networks. Sandvine has developed the industry's first 5G Service Intelligence Engine, a 3GPP Release 16-compliant and ANI-enriched Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF). Sandvine's 5G Service Intelligence Engine ingests massive amounts of network node-based data and couples it with service, device, and user data from the company's data plane elements. Equipped with this rich real-time data captured in milliseconds and ML algorithms, it provides an end-to-end view of 5G network traffic and automates workflows and inline actions to optimize quality of experience and improve network resiliency, security, and profitability. It performs a critical function in 5G networks and forward-looking customers are architecting it into their networks now.

The entire cloudified Service Innovation and Intelligence portfolio are out there as virtualized software running on virtual machines and as 5G cloud-native functions (CNFs) on Amazon Web Services and other public cloud platforms. This significantly lowers the total cost of ownership and enables quick access to valuable real-time 5G network and repair data.

ABOUT SANDVINE
Sandvine's market-leading, cloudified Service Innovation, and Intelligence portfolio help customers deliver exceptional digital experiences and grow revenues. Our ability to classify over 95% of network traffic across mobile and fixed networks by user, application, device, location, and other parameters creates uniquely rich, real-time network and service data. We then apply machine learning-based contextual insights to enhance performance and enhance digital services.