Narus provides the real-time traffic intelligence solutions to network and service providers, mobile carriers and government organizations to facilitate the protection and management of their large and complex IP networks. 

Network & Service Providers

As networks become more complex and users demand more value for their money, network and service providers are faced with increasing challenges. In the early 2000s, popular opinion dictated that bandwidth was practically free since networks were so overbuilt. Current rational thinking concludes that simply lighting up bandwidth is not the only way to manage cost. Management of the network, provisioning of new elements, ensuring high QoS on network links, etc. have become of vital concern since the "old way" of thinking is no longer valid.

With economic pressure on both network peers and end-user customers, the demand for lower pricing has forced providers to come up with new and innovative ways to take existing network assets and run them more efficiently, while also looking for opportunities to launch new services. The result of this has been for providers to place a much higher priority on optimizing the network without losing sight of the broader goal of new revenue. To that end, the demand for tools to enable these end goals has become broader in scope, yet defined and specific in purpose.

Narus understands both the needs of today’s providers and the complex network they’re managing. That knowledge led to the creation and ongoing development of Narus' real-time traffic intelligence system NarusInsight, its associated Cyber Protection, Intercept and Traffic Management solutions. The overarching product and solutions were designed with specific provider needs in mind. The combination ensures full visibility into network traffic across time, geography and technology (both element type and network type) and goes beyond simply monitoring to ensure full network security against data plane and control plane attacks as well as support for regulatory compliance associated with lawful intercept.

Mobile Carriers

The technology advancements and associated take rates for data over mobile phones has followed a similar pattern to that of the widespread launch of consumer Internet access from the early 1990’s. In both cases, data delivery started at low speeds and was only of interest to the technical elite. As the popularity of each form of communication spread to the greater masses, so did the demand for bandwidth and new services. Because of that, the lessons learned from the maturation of dial-up access to textual content to near-ubiquitous broadband access for all forms of content can be applied to the same growth in mobile phones and their evolution from WAP to the content-rich Web environment of today. The difference is that what took nearly two decades for wired broadband has taken only a fraction of that time for data delivery via mobile phones.

As mobile carriers launch phones that have nearly the same processing power of PCs from only a few years ago, consumers demand a similar experience with full-function browsers and “megabit plus” data rates approaching those of wired connections. The explosive growth of the iPhone, the Google G1 phone and other such devices are forcing mobile carriers to treat their mobile networks in the same way their service provider brothers are forced to. That means they must have the same level of network and application visibility, security and control over the traffic. Additionally, the element of mobility adds even more complexity to an already complex problem.

With these mobile carrier issues in mind, Narus designed NarusInsight, the real-time traffic intelligence system and the associated Cyber Protection, Intercept, and Traffic Management solutions. As mobile networks continue to catch up to the legacy wired networks in terms of usage and demand, NarusInsight will be the single solution that addresses multiple needs for operational and network efficiency.

Government

Just as in years past, today’s government agencies are tasked with protecting the nation’s physical infrastructure from both foreign and domestic threats. The difference is that today, these same agencies have the additional responsibility of protecting the nation’s virtual or cyber infrastructure which is arguably more complex and more prone to widespread disaster. Additionally, much of the physical threat is planned and executed via the cyber world, making the management of this space dually important.

The only way to address all of the necessary requirements in this new age is to protect private and internal government networks as well as working with and potentially mandating commercial service providers and carriers to do the same. Additionally, governments must also consider the ancillary issue of intelligence and surveillance associated with tracking cyber criminals and thwarting their efforts, whether those efforts are focused on commercial, political, or other more serious crimes.

While there are a number of solutions available today that cover portions of all of the issues government must address, Narus has established itself as the leader in the Traffic Intelligence space with the flagship NarusInsight product. Government organizations and government contractors can effectively monitor private and public networks for the purposes of protectin not only the services that ride on those networks, but more importantly, the people using thsoe services.

With a combination of specific solution configurations built around Cyber Protection, Intercept, and Traffic Management, Narus is able to meet the broad set of needs to address the threats to national infrastructures.