ipoque - a Rohde & Schwarz
ipoque – a Rohde & Schwarz company is a provider of IP network analytics and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) software for communication service providers, network equipment vendors, and enterprise network solutions.
- DPI software engines for IP traffic classification and protocol detection.
- IP network analytics solutions for visibility into network usage, applications, and subscriber behavior.
- Embedded traffic intelligence for network equipment manufacturers and cybersecurity vendors.
- Support for network optimization, QoS/QoE enforcement, traffic steering, and policy control use cases.
- Integration with carrier-grade and enterprise network architectures across fixed, mobile, and cloud environments.
More About ipoque - a Rohde & Schwarz
ipoque – a Rohde & Schwarz company focuses on traffic intelligence software that classifies and analyzes IP network traffic in real time for carriers, network vendors, and enterprises. Its core offering centers on DPI and network analytics engines (network analytics) that integrate into routing, security, policy control, and traffic management platforms. These engines provide granular insight into applications, protocols, and encrypted traffic metadata so that operators can enforce policies, allocate resources, and monitor service quality.
ipoque’s DPI and analytics components are designed to be embedded in products from communication service providers and equipment manufacturers. Typical deployment targets include packet core elements, broadband network gateways, carrier-grade Network Address Translation (NAT), firewalls, secure web gateways, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) or Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platforms. In these environments, ipoque software supports tasks such as application-aware routing, traffic shaping, subscriber-aware policy enforcement, and detection of undesired or malicious traffic patterns.
Technically, ipoque’s solutions operate across Layers 2–7 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and support IP-based networks including IPv4 and IPv6. The engines inspect packet headers and payloads where available and combine this with statistical and behavioral analysis for traffic using protocols such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and HTTP/S, as well as various tunneling and overlay protocols. For encrypted traffic, classification methods rely on observable characteristics such as SNI, certificate attributes, flow behavior, and other metadata within Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) sessions, without decryption in many use cases.
The company positions its offerings for use in mobile networks (3G, 4G, 5G), fixed broadband, and enterprise networks, including virtualized and cloud-native deployments. The software is typically delivered as embeddable libraries or virtualized components that vendors integrate into network functions running on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), container-based, or traditional hardware appliances. This allows adoption within architectures aligned to ETSI NFV frameworks and modern service-based telecom cores.
From a marketplace categorization perspective, ipoque fits into traffic intelligence (network analytics), DPI (network security and traffic management), and service assurance (observability) for IP networks. Its software supports use cases adjacent to policy and charging control, zero-rating, parental controls, congestion management, and security analytics, by feeding classified traffic data into operator policy engines, orchestration systems, and analytics platforms. Enterprises and service providers use this data to maintain visibility into application usage, enforce acceptable use policies, and tune network resources according to business priorities.