Ensure Subscriber Quality of Experience. Enhance Network Efficiency.

Broadband and mobile data networks continue to experience exciting and rapid growth as millions of new subscribers around the world connect to the Internet. Service providers have responded with significant investments in building out their networks that are now enabling the introduction of new, premium broadband services that attract more subscribers and increase average revenue per user.

Additionally, service providers are looking for options to ensure a high-quality service experience in order to increase subscriber loyalty. By extension, billing is moving away from a flat, “all-you-can-eat” fee toward customized pricing models that address a wide variety of capacity, application and class-of-service preferences. In this way, dynamic and personalized tiered pricing structures address what each individual subscriber wants from the network and can align demand for a service with the revenue the service provides.  

With a proven technology in leading service provider networks around the world, Sandvine offers a portfolio of policy-based solutions to address these trends. We can help you successfully transition from today's best-effort networks to tomorrow's intelligent broadband networks with new and exciting revenue opportunities.

Policy Management-Based Solutions

Sandvine offers a portfolio of policy-based solutions to address immediate business and technical challenges faced by service providers today: managing bandwidth-intensive traffic, controlling malicious threats, enabling new services and identifying application quality trends. These policy-based solutions, built upon our core strengths in application identification and traffic optimization, enable service providers to increase their network efficiency while improving subscriber satisfaction. Delivering these solutions using our scalable, multi-application platforms ensures a rapid return on your investment.

Sandvine solutions are built upon the fundamental concept of conditions and actions. Conditions determine when traffic optimization policies should be activated and include subscriber service entitlement, types of application traffic, and environmental aspects such as network traffic and time of day. Actions are policies that are triggered by a set of conditions - some of today's actions include optimizing, marking, protecting, or notifying support systems.  For example, a service provider may want to prioritize latency or jitter-sensitive traffic, such as VoIP or gaming, during peek times of business. This simple condition <-> action concept drives our industry-leading solutions portfolio.

More and more service providers are now realizing the benefits of deploying a single, integrated platform with multiple best-of-breed solutions.  Subscriber traffic is only inspected once for several different objectives so fewer network devices are needed. Network architecture is simpler with only a single intelligent network device performing several roles.  Service reliability is higher given fewer potential failure points in the network and finally, the solution is very cost effective since hardware resources are used efficiently.

Learn More about Policy-Based Solutions:

Traffic Optimization; ensure subscriber fairness while optimizing the use of network resources

Network Integrity; protect your network right from the initial stages of attack

Service Creation; launch new and differentiated services that harness the power of a policy-based network

Operations Management; ensure subscriber satisfaction while simplifying the operation of your network