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Niagara Networks Introduces Mobile Visibility Solution

On September 29, 2025, Niagara Networks, a trailblazer in network visibility solutions based in Silicon Valley, released its latest innovation: Mobile Visibility integrated within its virtualized Network Packet Broker (vNPB). This new feature is designed specifically to assist mobile network operators (MNOs) in effectively managing the enormous increase in subscriber traffic while ensuring robust security and optimized performance.

The demand for data throughput in mobile networks is burgeoning, presenting significant challenges, including tool sprawl with numerous specialized monitoring solutions and diverse infrastructures like Open RAN deployments. Traditional approaches to network visibility have often fallen short, resulting in fragmented and unreliable traffic data, complicating monitoring, security, and compliance processes.

To tackle these pressing issues, Niagara Networks has seamlessly integrated new subscriber correlation software into its vNPB platform. This allows for real-time correlation of control-plane (GTP-C) and user-plane (GTP-U) traffic, guaranteeing accurate tracking of every subscriber session, regardless of roaming or mobility events. As noted by Andre Vink, Vice President of Products at Niagara Networks, "By adding the new mobile visibility solution, we ensure our virtualized packet broker performs full GTP correlation between control and user plane traffic in real time." This advancement guarantees that security tools and performance analysis systems receive coherent and accurate traffic streams, thus enhancing their operational efficacy.

The implementation of subscriber-aware visibility is imperative for any efficient mobile network security strategy. Without it, results from monitoring tools can become incomplete or misleading. Leveraging the Mobile Visibility solution, operators can achieve the following benefits:

• - Provide coherent, subscriber-aware traffic flows to performance monitoring, security, and other related tools.
• - Utilize intelligent load balancing and filtering of traffic based on flexible subscriber data criteria, thus optimizing resource use.
• - Significantly reduce operational costs by preventing tool starvation, ensuring consistent and complete data flow.

At the core of this innovative solution lies the Niagara Networks’ vNPB, offering a microservices platform that boasts both agility and scalability essential for advanced packet processing and network intelligence applications. The vNPB encompasses an array of advanced features such as application filtering, header and payload slicing, data masking, and generating NetFlow/IPFIX metadata among others, all catering to complex packet conditioning requirements.

With Niagara Networks' Mobile Visibility solution, both operators and service providers will be empowered to transform their approach to network monitoring, attaining a holistic view of subscriber activity while being equipped to keep pace with evolving technologies like 4G, 5G, and IoT advancements. For more information on this transformative solution, visit Niagara Networks.

About Niagara Networks

Niagara Networks is renowned for its pioneering role in developing the Open Visibility Platform™, designed to introduce much-needed agility into network security measures. Their solutions are recognized for their high performance and reliability, serving some of the world’s most demanding service providers and enterprise environments. With installations in major global networks, Niagara Networks empowers Security and Network Operations Centers with comprehensive visibility and actionable traffic intelligence ending the data silos across physical and virtual environments.