For Mobile & Fixed Operators
Discover Enea (Openwave) traffic management, a cloud-native core software for fixed, 4G & 5G telecom performance. Control and optimize the increasing data traffic in your mobile network for enhanced user experience. Accelerate web and video streaming traffic, manage RAN capacity, enforce flexible user access policies and deliver revenue protection.
Enea has been a leader in the 4G and 5G Network Traffic Management software for over 15 years. 8 of the world’s top 10 telecom operators use our portfolio of value-added services that help communication providers to be the #1 Network on their market. Our customers around the globe use our cloud-native network performance software to:
Challenge: CSPs have limited visibility into traffic, with 95% of it encrypted and hidden fraud. Emerging encryption developments like ECH could leave them fully blind.
Solution: Full visibility, intelligence and actionability into encrypted traffic.
Challenge: Video is 70% of all mobile traffic and video volume grows at 30% YoY.
Solution: Deliver more content with the same infrastructure.
Challenge: Speed and video streaming experience build the perception of network quality.
Solution: Improve and win third-party benchmarks.
As mobile networks continue to evolve and converge, service providers face increasing pressure to deliver consistently fast and seamless user experiences while managing traffic demands. To stay competitive and personalize data services, operators need deeper visibility into network activity, precise traffic control, and the ability to optimize performance in real time. Enea’s intelligent traffic management solutions provide the insights and automation needed to get the best from the network, adapting data access to boost speed, measure and enhance Quality of Experience (QoE), and personalize access to unlock new revenue opportunities.
The surge in data consumption—driven by 5G data-hungry apps, HD video streaming, remote working, social media, and gaming—creates ongoing challenges for network operators. Data access is essential, and any drop in quality is instantly blamed on the service provider. In a shared network, the optimal use of network assets is critical. This challenge is further compounded by the rise of encryption (95%+ of all traffic), making it harder to classify and manage traffic effectively. Enea’s toolset of advanced analytics and AI-powered traffic identification helps operators regain visibility, ensuring accurate detection and control across all types of network traffic.
Enea’s Traffic Management solutions give mobile service providers the real-time intelligence and control needed to manage network congestion, improve user experience, and increase profitability. Whether through automated traffic optimization, personalized service offerings, or strategic insights, operators can take proactive steps to enhance efficiency and revenue potential.
Enea’s Network Traffic Management Software is proven to increase revenue with personalized services, enhance user experiences through real-time insights, and reduce costs with efficient traffic optimization.
Boost network speed by optimizing core internet protocols like TCP and UDP.
Implement advanced congestion management to maximize network efficiency.
Deploy flexibly across multi-cloud environments for scalable, cost-effective services.
Improve traffic prioritization to enhance service delivery and increase ROI.
Enea is a world leader in network traffic management and stand for over 20 industry innovations in encrypted traffic classification, optimization and acceleration.
Real-time zero-rating fraud detection in a commercial network
AI-powered encrypted traffic classification
Dual-mode traffic management in a commercial 5G Core network
RAN congestion detection using AI in the
packet core in a commercial network
HTTPS & QUIC optimization, expanded with
SNI-hidden Q050, IETF QUIC and Kyber
Auto-learning TCP acceleration and QoE-driven video optimization
Enea’s traffic management capabilities provide the technological foundation needed to fulfill our ‘subscribe once, source from many, pay for what you use’ model, which is radically transforming how consumers experience mobile services across our LATAM operations.
Enea’s technology allows us to effectively manage all our streaming data, including encrypted video, resulting in a very positive impact on subscriber QoE.
TELUS is proud to partner with Enea and give our customers a better experience while watching videos.
The innovative solution from Enea has been impressive. They have demonstrated their expertise and backed it up with excellent levels of service.
Secure Traffic Manager and RAN Congestion Manager effectively manage encrypted and non-encrypted traffic, reduce RAN congestion and improve subscribers’ quality of experience.
This Omdia report discusses the data traffic challenges that CSPs face, the key data traffic management tools and their value, how CSPs can maximize revenues and limit fraud, the optimal approach to implementation including how and where in the network, and how to stay up to date with the regular internet changes for large content.
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Network-based Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and flow analysis are essential for managing mobile and fixed data traffic. This brief explores how traditional physical DPI solutions can be replaced with Enea’s Traffic Classifier and Network Traffic Management Functions, delivering a cost-effective, scalable, and automated software solution with best-in-class optimisation capabilities.
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A single zero-rated attack can cost USD 80,000 in lost revenue for a CSP. Fraudsters are draining your revenue by bypassing data charging rules and exploiting zero-rating policies. Learn how to detect and block these threats with this 16-page white paper.
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Discover how operators can boost revenue and customer satisfaction by personalizing data plans with timely, behavior-based offers. Learn how Enea’s solutions help reduce churn, optimize network usage, and enable smarter upselling.
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Enea Network Performance – Innovation in the 5G Core.
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Deployed by 70+ large-scale CSPs in 40+ countries, Enea Network Traffic Management optimizes traffic for 800Mn+ subscribers daily, and is trusted by leading operators such as:
Would you like to know more about Enea’s software solutions for Network Traffic Management? Interested in discovering how our features could improve your specific use cases? Contact us to arrange a meeting with our network performance experts!
Network traffic management is software in the operator’s core network that classifies, optimizes and controls data flowing between subscribers’ devices and the internet. Enea Network Traffic Management combines traffic classification (DPI), video and TCP optimization, RAN congestion management, filtering, fraud prevention and analytics on one cloud-native platform. Operators use it to improve user experience, reduce data delivery costs and create new revenue from data plans in fixed, 4G and 5G networks.
Encryption hides the content, but not the behavior of a flow. Enea combines TLS and QUIC handshake metadata, flow patterns, DNS analysis and AI-powered classification to identify applications and activities without decrypting the payload. This covers TLS 1.3, QUIC, DNS over HTTPS and newer changes such as Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) and Kyber key encapsulation.
Yes. Enea’s solutions run in the 4G Gi-LAN and on the N6 interface in 5G Standalone cores, next to the UPF. The 5G Service Engine lets operators run the same value-added services for 4G and 5G users on one platform, and migrate step by step from an existing 4G deployment. In 2023 Enea delivered dual-mode traffic management in a commercial 5G core network.
The software is cloud-native and runs on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) x86 hardware, as virtual network functions, or in containerized environments, including OpenStack and VMware. Services are chained at a single traffic interception point in the data path, so classification, optimization, filtering and analytics share one deployment instead of separate appliances. A virtual load balancer scales the platform horizontally.
Yes, when it is applied transparently and selectively. Enea’s tools act on traffic types and conditions, such as video streams during cell congestion, rather than blocking or slowing specific providers. Accurate classification also helps operators offer zero-rated services, such as government or education sites, in line with regulators’ guidance, for example from Ofcom in the UK. Local regulation decides which policies an operator can apply.
Both are possible, and a 2024 Omdia report based on Tier 1 operator interviews sets out the trade-offs. Tools embedded in the UPF are quicker to roll out, but DPI, TCP acceleration and classification take a significant share of UPF processing capacity, and every update touches a business-critical gateway. A separate N6-LAN (Gi-LAN in 4G) function, such as Enea’s, scales on its own resources and is updated without affecting the packet core.
Enea Network Traffic Management is deployed by 70+ large-scale CSPs in 40+ countries and optimizes traffic for 800 million+ subscribers daily, including Vodafone, TELUS and Zain. Reported results include up to 25% video traffic savings, 10–25% faster content delivery with TCP acceleration, and top rankings in independent drive tests. Enea has developed traffic management software for over 15 years, originally as Openwave Mobility.
