The global market for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is projected to reach US$3.7 Billion by 2025, driven by exploding Internet traffic, rising security threats, growing sophistication of cyber-attacks and increasing bandwidth management needs. The unprecedented spurt in global IP traffic is the result of rapidly expanding internet user base supported by growing literacy rates, increasing disposable incomes & high proportion of digitally savvy young people; and rapid penetration of cloud computing based business models. Increased data volume amplifies security threats, while growing ubiquity of cloud services magnifies the need for protection against web exploits, data exfiltration and malware/ botnets. The need to identify traffic on a network is becoming more important than ever to troubleshoot poor network performance, latency issues and high application response times; to manage unidentified network traffic; to handle unexpected traffic and data volume surges; and classify ...