Leading the Way in LIMA Lawful Intercept Solutions: Embracing 40 Years of Excellence, Collaborative Innovation, and the Advantages of a Privately-Owned Company In the realm of LIMA Lawful Intercept solutions, the choice of a partner goes beyond just a business decision – it’s about security, ethics, and trust. With an unwavering commitment spanning over four […]

Relevance High bandwidth networks like fiber and eMBB (5G) put new requirements to a LIMA Lawful Interception solution. With the high throughput data streams, the costs of processing this data increases in multiple segments of the entire LI chain. Not all data is relevant for an investigation however, E.g., Netflix and application and OS updates […]

Many organisations, including large telecommunications and technology companies, and multinational corporations, regularly receive legal demands from law enforcement agencies for the interception of communications. Generally, companies have the technical capability in place for handling such requests. Over the years these systems have been optimised to efficiently and effectively intercept the traffic of their customers when […]

Release 18 of the 3GPP LI standards will be frozen in December 2022, and the work on release 19 has already begun. There are many topics, three of which are introduced here. Bandwidth Pruning Since the 5G network offers a significant increase in the user-bandwidth, managing the amount of intercepted traffic becomes more and more […]

The SMS service provided by mobile operators is still quite popular. However, because of its basic functionality, its usage is surpassed by other messaging services like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and iMessage with features like longer texts, pictures, videos, emoticons, and group chats. To make the service more valuable and competitive, smartphone manufacturers, carriers, and the […]

5G technology and design choices are changing LI requirements, part 2. Capacity and Filtering needs for LEA’s. This is the second blog post in our blog series: “How 5G technology and design choices are changing Lawful interception requirements”. In the first blog post of this series, I provided a brief overview of the not-so-obvious implications […]

Legal compliance: The benefit of Warrant Management, Auditing, and Integrity check solutions While in the past, it was sufficient for telecom providers to comply with telecom law and regulations to disclose customer data to law enforcement agencies, today concepts such as accountability (in- and external), transparency, and to have the right checks and balances in […]

How 5G technology and design choices are changing LI requirements for Law Enforcement, part 1 When CSPs choose to implement 5G for their customers, they generally follow a phased approach. The 1st phase generally consists of an upgrade of their Radio Access Network (RAN) in combination with an upgrade of their EPC core. The 2nd […]

Nowadays, deploying services in the cloud has become common practice. Both public and private clouds are being applied, each with their own characteristics regarding scalability, security, privacy, reliability, costs, etc. This blog will focus on the resiliency of deployments in the cloud and how to take this into account when planning a deployment. Resiliency Resiliency […]

Maintenance and Permit Management With the deployment of 5G, Mobile Network Operators (MNO’s) are once again facing a historic cycle of key choices and major investments in their infrastructure. The deployment of 5G creates a much more complex technology environment for MNO’s. The fast pace at which these rollouts of new technologies need to happen […]

Can you guarantee the integrity of your LI environment, compliance auditing in heterogeneous LI in your network environments? Probably not. However, there is a solution: Fulfilling telecommunication regulatory and compliance obligations nowadays is not about simply adding, for instance, Lawful Interception capabilities to the network anymore. At first glance, it might still seem that way. […]

For you, like a mobile network operator, it is all about compliance. Local, national, and supranational governmental bodies all create legislation and regulations to which you should adhere.  The telecommunication sector is one of the regulated sectors. When launching a new communication service, like 5G, the involved parties all put significant effort into ensuring that […]

Fast, faster, fast enough? The appetite of consumers but also businesses for increased internet bandwidth is continuing to grow. Technology changes enable this and drive new use cases. Video streaming services are now more popular than ever, and eMBB is one of the early drivers of 5G. The increased adoption of fiber to the home […]

The relevance for Lawful Interception of the EU Directive 2018/1972 EECC for OTT services In December 2018, a new EU Directive came in force to establish the European Electronic Communications Code. This EU Directive had to be transposed to the various national laws ultimately in December 2020. Although today this did not happen yet in […]

With the introduction and rollout of 5G networks both for stand-alone and non-stand-alone network architectures, new Lawful Interception capabilities must be in place in the network of the operator in order to stay compliant with the regulatory laws of the local government. As such the evolving technology will cause the following considerations for mobile network […]

While the whole world is moving to Cloud, some applications are still considered to be too sensitive or too critical to run from a cloud environment due to its nature, whether this is in a private cloud instance or space from a public cloud provider. Legal compliance functions like Lawful Interception and Data Retention belong […]

Many investigations rely on that “single” (smart)phone interaction that turns out to be the lead to prevent or resolve an illicit activity or find the person that needs aid.

For repetitive tasks, each click, each keystroke costs time. Fewer clicks and keystrokes increase efficiency. No one will debate that. Still, a lot of software applications are not designed with this simple principle in mind. Particularly, when a process is not standard for each organization or user. What is missing here is that within the […]

Lawful Interception is a powerful tool for Police and Intelligence Services to fight crime and terrorism. Obviously, the availability of lawful interception is of paramount importance and even a short downtime of this service could have disastrous consequences for ongoing investigations.

To fulfill legal obligations, telecommunication network operators are obliged to handle legal warrants for lawful intercepts and lawful disclosures. With increasing numbers of warrants and the use of electronic handover interfaces, network operators may come in a situation where they feel that they are losing control over the process.

Lawful Interception (LI) architectures deployed in telecommunication networks consist of many complex building blocks that are connected and integrated together. If one of these building blocks fails for whatever reason, potential important and often crucial intercepted data can be lost.

Over the previous generations of mobile networks, we have seen a steady increase in bandwidth and a move from traditional circuit-switched technology to an all-IP network. The 5G network takes this massive step further in various aspects. 5G is much, much more than the common perspective of mobile “ users” “just like 4G, but faster”!