Huawei Releases Industry-leading Network Traffic Analysis System—uTraffic

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced the release of uTraffic, a network traffic analysis system. Based on Huawei's industry-leading performance management platform, uTraffic enables carriers to analyze network traffic and flow and monitor the quality of network "pipes".

Due to the emergence of new services, such as mobile Internet, high-definition video, online gaming, and cloud applications, data traffic is growing drastically and bandwidth needs are continually expanding. Many carriers are in a bind, because their revenue has not increased along with the traffic growth, and their network "pipes" are overloaded. The lack of a means for proactively monitoring and optimizing network traffic is the biggest challenge carriers face in terms of network operations and maintenance.

Lu Hongju, President of Huawei's Fixed Network OSS & Service Product Line, said: "Mobile broadband (MBB) has evolved from the global system for mobile communications (GSM) to long term evolution (LTE). Fixed broadband (FBB) has evolved from traditional voice and Internet applications to high-definition video and cloud applications. Network traffic will increase tenfold and more in the next three years. Carriers are faced with rapid network traffic growth, dynamic traffic changes, and traffic flow uncertainties. Visualizing and optimizing network traffic and flow, enhancing the transmission efficiency of network "pipes", and improving service quality and experience are key issues that carriers need to solve immediately."

Huawei's uTraffic was designed to address these issues. uTraffic is a network traffic analysis system with a scalable distributed architecture. This system can display overlapping physical topologies, geographic information system (GIS) mapping, and network traffic. It can also locate traffic congestion points. By collecting and analyzing traffic, uTraffic can predict the traffic and the broadband utilization rate for the next one to three months, and forecast where the bottleneck in the "pipe" is likely to occur. uTraffic also supports network expansion. uTraffic uses the embedded probe technology, which can monitor traffic and "pipe" quality to an accuracy of 10-6, top in the industry. Huawei also leads the industry in achieving point-to-multipoint monitoring by extending the Y.1731 technology. uTraffic will significantly enhance carrier capabilities in the lean operations of network "pipes".