Today’s wireless networks now offer subscribers a true mobile broadband experience. As expected, increased penetration has caused increased traffic loads in the wireless operator’s radio network. However, a significant portion of the increase results from the fact that identical packets can consume widely varying network resources, simply based on how the host applications transmit the packets. As a result, network inefficiencies, unexpected congestion, and outages are becoming commonplace and more difficult to resolve. Addressing the need to confidently deliver data over wireless networks, the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 Wireless Network Guardian integrates wireless-intelligent behavior-based traffic classification and end-to-end network performance monitoring in one system, resulting in simplified network management, design and operation.