Celebrating a Year of Posts with Exclusive DPI CEOs Q&A Panel

      

January 30 will mark the first anniversary of my Broadband Traffic Management Blog. With close to 600 posts, the blog attracts thousands of visitors from DPI, Traffic and Policy Management vendors and users globally (167 countries, to be exact - see chart for the top ten).

 

It is interesting to see which posts gained the highest attention. Although Google Analytics provides only a partial answer (since it shows people accessing the home page as "/"), I believe it is still a good indication. The most popular post was the first "PCRF-DPI Compatibility Matrix" (that begun as a series of posts and now is a page accessible from the home page).

Next are the rumors about Comverse acquisition - is it going to be ZTE/Huawei (here) or Oracle (here)? - Both haven’t happened (yet). These are followed by analysis of Cisco's policy server needs (here) and Blue Coat's carrier cache announcement (here).

To celebrate the event, I contacted the CEOs of the leading pure-player DPI vendors, offering them to participate in an exclusive Q&A panel about the DPI market, trends and solutions. I was very pleased to see that all of them - Rami Hadar (Allot Communications), Dave Caputo (Sandvine Corp) and James Brear (Procera Networks) - agreed to participate and sent me their answers. Thank you!

Stay tuned for tomorrow's post - and read what the CEOs think about the DPI market size and needs, M&A and why do they think that standalone DPI are here to stay.