The cable/MSO industry faces enormous challenges—from an ongoing bandwidth crunch that affects download speeds and upload capacity—to the need to sustain profitable growth by rolling out new services in the face of aggressive competition. Some of the fastest-growing usage trends today include over-the-top Internet services like HTTP video streaming, VoIP, interactive gaming and social networks that are not in the operator’s walled garden of services.
Recent market research indicates that more and more broadband consumers prefer to find their own viewing content via the Internet. This not only poses a business challenge to the traditional walled-garden approach of cable service providers, but it also presents a significant service delivery challenge. As the cable broadband industry seeks to reaffirm its leadership position in a rapidly converging communications marketplace, Allot bandwidth management solutions can help you to manage growing consumption and congestion; to implement transparent, fair-use policies, and to monetize the use of over-the-top applications and services.
Solutions for Cable Networks
Intelligent traffic management tools from Allot are playing a key role in helping cable operators to ensure that network costs do not outpace revenue growth, and that the broadband usage needs and expectations of all subscribers are met.
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Service monitoring: Understand how subscriber services are consuming network resources in real-time and over time, so you can manage utilization, troubleshoot, and plan network capacity expansion more effectively.
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Subscriber-application
and network-topology awareness: Obtain granular network intelligence to manage traffic per application, per subscriber, per CMTS, per service plan, and according to local network conditions.
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Fair-use management: Ensure fair use during periods of congestion by prioritizing and/or expediting the delivery of applications that are affected by latency or jitter.
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Tiered
and quota management service enablement: Create competitive subscriber service plans based on personal QoS policies that enforce how each subscriber’s traffic is treated, and on usage allowances that encourage subscribers to meter and control their own consumption.
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Botnet and outgoing spam protection: Neutralize botnets and outgoing spam by quickly and accurately detecting infected users and anomalous activity and on the network and stopping it at the source.
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Integrated network & subscriber services: Generate new sources of revenue with Allot’s expanding portfolio of value-added network and subscriber services.