Skip to main content

Aviz Networks details extended session tracking

Source Decision Insights Record Published August 27, 2026 Companies 1
Human View Machine View

302nd article in the last 90 days, one of 817 articles referencing Aviz Networks. Previous coverage: Aviz Networks details Network Copilot for FortiGate (Aug 2026).

Companies mentioned

Best suited for

Seniority
Architect
Job function
Network / Network Architect
Persona
Network Architect
Buyer role
Architect / Technical Evaluator
Decision stage
Where to buy
Adoption curve
Early Majority
Technology maturity
Operational Expansion
Industry
Information Technology / Software & Services / Internet Software & Services / Applied AI / AI-Native Software

Our classification, not the publisher's statement. Best suited for, not only for.

Aviz says its Service Node now extends user session identification for telecom networks by adding tunnel and quality-of-service fields to standard keys. The update is aimed at operators that need more accurate flow separation, subscriber correlation, and exported analytics without changing existing downstream systems.

Research Overview

The blog says shared mobile infrastructure can produce many flows that look similar when only the inner 5-tuple is used. In those cases, different subscribers or services can be grouped into the same session, which affects the accuracy of exported records.

Aviz presents the issue as a session-identification problem for operators that rely on Kafka and IPFIX outputs for analytics, monitoring, and reporting. The article says those outputs depend on correct session grouping to keep metadata and KPI records aligned with actual traffic.

Technical Breakdown

The standard session key used by ASN is the inner 5-tuple: inner source IP, inner destination IP, source port, destination port, and transport protocol. The blog says this can be insufficient when separate subscribers share the same inner values.

To address that, Enhanced User Session Identification can add outer source IP, outer destination IP, GTP TEID, outer DSCP, and inner DSCP to the session key. Aviz says operators can choose which of those fields to include, and existing deployments can continue with the conventional method if the feature is turned off.

Operational Impact

The blog says the expanded session key is used to create Kafka topic keys and IPFIX flow keys. Aviz says that allows downstream analytics systems to receive unique session identifiers while keeping the analytics architecture unchanged.

The company says the feature is intended to improve flow separation, IMSI correlation, metadata exports, and KPI calculations. It also says the approach supports more granular tracking of subscriber and service traffic across shared network infrastructure.

Leadership Perspective

For network operators, the article frames accurate session identification as a requirement for subscriber analytics and reporting. It says the feature is configurable to match deployment needs and remains backward compatible with existing environments.

This Blog Signals brief is a fact-based summary of the vendor blog.

Blog post, originally published by Infant Ruban Suresh at aviznetworks.com.

Mentions

Structured data (JSON-LD)

The schema.org markup this page publishes for search engines and AI agents, exactly as they read it.

[
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#website",
    "@type": "WebSite",
    "name": "Decision Insights",
    "potentialAction": {
      "@type": "SearchAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://decisioninsights.ai/search/?q={search_term_string}&submit=1"
      }
    },
    "publisher": {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization"
    },
    "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai"
  },
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "contactPoint": {
      "@type": "ContactPoint",
      "contactType": "customer support",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    "description": "Decision Insights is a Registry of technology companies, open source projects, and industry terms, built for people and for AI agents that need sourced, structured information.",
    "logo": {
      "@type": "ImageObject",
      "url": "https://wiretap-cdn-assets.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/decision-insights/[email protected]"
    },
    "name": "Decision Insights",
    "parentOrganization": {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Wiretap Labs",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wiretap-labs",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wiretap-labs"
      ],
      "url": "https://wiretaplabs.com"
    },
    "publishingPrinciples": "https://decisioninsights.ai/standards/",
    "sameAs": [
      "https://www.linkedin.com/company/decisioninsights"
    ],
    "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai"
  },
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
    "itemListElement": [
      {
        "@type": "ListItem",
        "item": "https://decisioninsights.ai",
        "name": "Decision Insights",
        "position": 1
      },
      {
        "@type": "ListItem",
        "item": "https://decisioninsights.ai/records/",
        "name": "Records",
        "position": 2
      },
      {
        "@type": "ListItem",
        "item": "https://decisioninsights.ai/aviz-networks-details-extended-session-tracking/",
        "name": "Aviz Networks details extended session tracking",
        "position": 3
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/aviz-networks-details-extended-session-tracking/#blogposting",
    "@type": "BlogPosting",
    "about": {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/aviz-networks/#organization",
      "@type": "Organization",
      "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/aviz-networks/",
      "name": "Aviz Networks"
    },
    "articleSection": [
      "Cybersecurity"
    ],
    "audience": [
      {
        "@type": "Audience",
        "additionalType": "Seniority",
        "audienceType": "Architect"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Audience",
        "additionalType": "Job function",
        "audienceType": "Network / Network Architect"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Audience",
        "additionalType": "Persona",
        "audienceType": "Network Architect"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Audience",
        "additionalType": "Buyer role",
        "audienceType": "Architect / Technical Evaluator"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Audience",
        "additionalType": "Adoption curve",
        "audienceType": "Early Majority"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Audience",
        "additionalType": "Technology maturity",
        "audienceType": "Operational Expansion"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Audience",
        "additionalType": "Industry",
        "audienceType": "Information Technology / Software & Services / Internet Software & Services / Applied AI / AI-Native Software"
      }
    ],
    "author": {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/author/decision-insights-signals/#person",
      "@type": "Person",
      "name": "Decision Insights Record",
      "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/author/decision-insights-signals/"
    },
    "dateModified": "2026-08-27T17:56:00-06:00",
    "datePublished": "2026-08-27T12:22:06-06:00",
    "description": "Aviz says Service Node extends session identification with tunnel and QoS fields for telecom operators.",
    "headline": "Aviz Networks details extended session tracking",
    "isBasedOn": {
      "@type": "CreativeWork",
      "author": {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": "Infant Ruban Suresh"
      },
      "url": "https://aviznetworks.com/resources/blogs/beyond-the-5-tuple-accurate-session-tracking-for-telecom-networks"
    },
    "keywords": [
      "Metadata",
      "Session Key"
    ],
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/aviz-networks-details-extended-session-tracking/",
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "sdDatePublished": "2026-08-27",
      "sdPublisher": {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization"
      }
    },
    "mentions": [
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/aviz-networks/#organization",
        "@type": "Organization",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/aviz-networks/",
        "name": "Aviz Networks"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/projects/perspective/#project",
        "@type": "SoftwareSourceCode",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/projects/perspective/",
        "name": "Perspective"
      }
    ],
    "publisher": {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization"
    }
  },
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/author/decision-insights-signals/#person",
    "@type": "Person",
    "description": "Press releases and independent analyst research, structured into concise summaries for research and monitoring. Produced under our Standards & Methodology.",
    "name": "Decision Insights Record",
    "sameAs": [
      "https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/decisioninsights/"
    ],
    "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/author/decision-insights-signals/"
  }
]

Is this your company? Get structured data for your own pages