The standalone deep-packet inspection market is set to surge past $2 billion by 2015, thanks in big part to growth in Asia and EMEA. That’s the findings of a recently report from Infonetics Research.
The firm’s “Service Provider Deep Packed Inspection Products" report tracks standalone DPI solutions and vendors.
"Although residual concerns over Net neutrality and operators' proclivity for all-you-can-eat services have made U.S. operators hesitant to do any widespread deployments of deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, the DPI market is growing at a healthy pace in other parts of the world," said Shira Levine, directing analyst for next-gen OSS and policy at Infonetics. “We anticipate particularly dramatic growth in emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, where operators are looking to address network congestion caused by rapid subscriber growth, comply with regulatory requirements, and support cyber security initiatives. Meanwhile, operators across all regions plan to use DPI to enable value-added services, such as content-based charging and premium services that provide a guaranteed quality of service for applications like video streaming."
The DPI market report says Sandvine is the revenue leader in DPI globally, followed by Allot and Cisco. Over time, Infonetics says, the influence of DPI technology that is integrated into network equipment will limit growth in the standalone DPI market; however, operators will continue to implement both in their network environments, possibly deploying standalone DPI products at the core of their networks and integrated DPI capabilities further out toward the access points.
