A good post on Sandvine's "The Better Broadband Blog" about device awareness, by Tom Donnelly. See "The Case for Device Awareness" - here.
Not an easy challenge, even for the "deepest" DPI devices, but it seems that Sandvine can provide it now. See the chart below, from Sandvine’s Network Analytics product.
And the use case - "One use case that Sandvine has assisted with, using device awareness, is enabling service providers to offer a special tier to those customers wishing to tether their mobile devices. Tethering is the use of your cell phone or other Internet-enabled mobile device as a modem for another device, like a notebook or PDA. It enables you to go online from your laptop, for example, in situations where there’s no other means of Internet access. By being able to identify “tethering” devices, a service provider can offer a service tier or package that caters to the subscribers’ needs".
Learn more in the following post - "Why Do Mobile Carriers Need Device Awareness?" - here and "Someone doesn’t like the iPad Tethering" - here.
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But there is difference with Device Types and tethering. This image is a simple device awareness that is based on IMEI codes.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like if teethering was listed as a capability of the phone and that was the reason the consumer picked to buy that phone then the. Phone companies and phone producers should list the capability as a pay for feature.when I pay for unlimited data I should get all features cww raise there taxes and prices without even advising the customer.there name should stand for cheat customers whenever!
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