Selective intelligent enforcement and/or selective offloading for mobile networks using a smart network interface card

A method, comprising:

• monitoring network traffic in a core mobile network using a Smart Network Interface Card (NIC) of a network element in the core mobile network to identify a new session that attached to the core mobile network for mobile network communications;
• extracting meta information associated with the new session using the Smart NIC of the network element in the core mobile network;
• and
• applying selective intelligent enforcement and/or selective intelligent offloading using the Smart NIC of the network element if the extracted meta information associated with the new session matches a selective intelligent enforcement policy and/or a selective intelligent offload policy.

A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

• monitoring network traffic in a core mobile network using a Smart Network Interface Card (NIC) of a network element in the core mobile network to identify a new session that attached to the core mobile network for mobile network communications;
• extracting meta information associated with the new session using the Smart NIC of the network element in the core mobile network;
• and
• applying selective intelligent enforcement and/or selective intelligent offloading using the Smart NIC of the network element if the extracted meta information associated with the new session matches a selective intelligent enforcement policy and/or a selective intelligent offload policy.