Abstract: A system compatible for use with ATCA includes a chassis comprising a first and a second plurality of slots for receiving circuit boards. The chassis further includes a midplane having a front surface and a back surface. The midplane extends between the first plurality of slots and the second plurality of slots. The midplane has a first plurality of connectors affixed to the front surface and has a second plurality of connectors affixed to the back surface. Each connector is arranged to accept a circuit board. The midplane forms an interconnection scheme such that one of the first plurality of slots is directly connected to one of the second plurality of slots. The one of the first plurality of slots and the one of the second plurality of slots extend in opposite directions from their respective connections on the midplane.

Abstract: A computer system to group a data set is provided, in which the computer system includes a memory configured to store instructions and a processor disposed in communication with the memory. The processor upon execution of the instructions is configured to access a data set including a plurality of data elements and associate the plurality of data elements with a plurality of data groups. The data set is assignable to a plurality of bins that are grouped differently than the plurality of data groups, wherein assignment of the data set to the plurality of bins is performed by accessing the plurality of data groups without accessing the data set or the plurality of data elements.

Abstract: A system includes a policy repository configured to store a plurality of plurality of media-centric policies. A media policy decision point receives media session data corresponding to one of the plurality of media sessions; determines a plurality of media-specific and non-media specific attributes, based on the media session data; and evaluates a plurality of media-centric policies to determine a proper subset of the plurality of media-centric policies that apply to the one of the plurality of media sessions. A media policy enforcement point enforces the proper subset of the plurality of media-centric policies to control the one of the plurality of media sessions.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for analyzing media traffic having encrypted application-layer and payload data. The method includes determining from network traffic a media service provided to a network subscriber, application-layer and payload data of the network traffic providing the media service to the network subscriber being encrypted, detecting media traffic within the network traffic providing the media service to the network subscriber, associating application-layer data of the media traffic to a media session, determining a key performance indicator (KPI) associated with the media session, and outputting report data based on the KPI.

Abstract: A network monitoring node receives one or more data messages regarding User Equipment (UE) from one or more network interfaces for a communication session in the communication network continuously in real-time, determines a subscriber identification (ID) associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE, and determines an equipment identification (ID) associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE. The network monitoring node further receives a base-key associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE, derives a decryption key from the base-key, decrypts a temporary ID associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE based on the decryption key, maps the temporary ID with the subscriber ID for the UE, and the subscriber ID with the equipment ID for the UE, and assigns data messages for all further communication sessions to the UE based on the mapping.

Abstract: A system includes a policy repository configured to store a plurality of media-centric policies. A media policy decision point is configured to execute operational instructions in accordance with a media centric policy language to select at least one of the plurality of policies corresponding to one of the plurality of media sessions based on, for example, feedback extracted monitoring the plurality of media sessions. The media-centric policy language, in various embodiments, expresses at least one of: operator preferences, operator goals, or operator constraints, facilitates management of individual ones of the plurality of media sessions and/or facilitates management of aggregate media traffic over the plurality of media sessions.

Abstract: A central node sends a query indicating at least one key performance indicator (KPI) and a first KPI filter criterion to one or more edge nodes causing each edge node to cache subscriber data from each subscriber having a KPI value corresponding to the KPI. The central node receives subscriber data, responsive to the query, and aggregates the subscriber data according to each subscriber and the corresponding KPI value to yield an aggregated initial subscriber dataset and sends a subsequent query to each edge node that (for each edge node) indicates a subscriber from the initial subscriber dataset not returned by the edge node. The central node receives subsequent subscriber, responsive to the subsequent query, and aggregates the subsequent subscriber data with the initial subscriber dataset to yield a final subscriber dataset that indicates a total KPI value for each subscriber.

Abstract: In a networked system connecting a subscriber to a content source via one or more networks, a computer-implemented method includes instantiating a session model for a media session between the subscriber and the content source, the session model to generate session metadata from application-layer interactions between the subscriber and the content source. The method further includes instantiating an interaction model in response to detecting an application-layer interaction in a transport flow of the subscriber, the application-layer interaction comprising media data for the media session. The method also includes generating, at the interaction model, interaction metadata representative of the application-layer interaction, and processing at least one of the interaction metadata and the media data at the session model to generate session metadata responsive to matching the interaction model to the session model.

Abstract: A device includes a frame data analyzer that generates buffer increment data based on frame data sent from the media server to the media client and further based on acknowledgement data sent from the media client to the media server. A playback data generator generates playback data based on frame data buffer contents and further based on player state data. A frame buffer model generator generates a buffer fullness indicator and the frame data buffer contents, based on the buffer increment data and the playback data. A player state generator generates the player state data, based on the buffer fullness indicator and further based on media client data, media server data and player command data.

Abstract: A distributed network monitoring device monitors via a lightweight session tracking module of a network monitoring device, control plane data for connectivity sessions of User Equipment (UE) in a communication network. The lightweight session tracking module selectively identifies at least one bearer for a corresponding connectivity session according to one or more control plane attributes and associates each selectively identified bearer for the corresponding connectivity session with a bearer routing rule for user plane data. A packet routing module receives user plane data for connectivity sessions of UE and transmits the user plane data of the connectivity sessions according to the bearer routing rule of the lightweight session tracking module to a flow processing module for subsequent data flow analysis.

Abstract: A method for managing data in a Quality-of-Storage (QoSt) network comprising a plurality of nodes includes receiving current QoSt network topology information. A plurality of data streams is received at a data storage interface of the QoSt network. Differentiated treatment is performed upon received data streams in the data storage interface. Such differentiated treatment is contingent upon at least different types of data in the received data streams based on a plurality of QoSt attributes. A plurality of data management operations is performed on the data obtained by the plurality of data streams based on the data storage interface and based on received current QoSt network topology information.