The Sandvine Service Delivery Engine (SDE) provides the ideal platform from which to launch next generation services across a converged network infrastructure. The SDE provides end-to-end resource management and control of sensitive multimedia services in order to ensure a rich subscriber experience using any access network technology. In addition, the SDE fully integrates with other Sandvine policy platforms and network management products for a comprehensive policy strategy addressing services, security, traffic optimization and network demographics reporting.

Revenue-Generating Services

Service providers today have an early opportunity to offer subscribers a higher-quality experience for multimedia services by introducing new QoS-prioritized services. Experience to date is confirming that these subscribers place a high value on a consistent, quality experience that exceeds typical best-effort services even for higher bandwidth offerings. Leveraging the flexible architecture of the Sandvine SDE, innovative service providers can now lead the market with new revenue generating services:

• Bandwidth on Demand: Enable subscribers to immediately boost their data rate for a limited period of time while enjoying multimedia entertainment, video downloads and other applications
• Service Promotion Upgrade: Encourage subscribers to easily upgrade to premium services after previewing the faster download speeds for their favorite online activities
• VoIP Plus: Enhance your branded voice over IP service to ensure a consistent, crisp, clear voice quality that subscribers can trust as a key element of their triple play package
• Streaming Video: Deliver the same high-quality video experience for new streaming media that subscribers enjoyed from traditional broadcast video.
• Photo Upload: Reduce dramatically the time needed to upload digital photos to popular online photo sharing and storage services for sharing with friends and family
• Online Gaming: Excite your exploding base of gamers with improved performance and responsiveness for these highly interactive, distributed, multi-player games

Resource Management

Sandvine’s Service Delivery Engine also provides with a unique suite of tools to improve network efficiencies, increase profitability, and ensure overall subscriber satisfaction.

• Data Collector: captures a broad range of usage metrics so that service providers can plan network growth and manage network operations based upon a solid understanding of subscriber usage trends
• FairShare™: provides a flexible, cost-effective solution for managing access and core bandwidth usage “fairly” during periods of congestion thereby ensuring an optimal experience for all subscribers
• Hot-lining: strengthens the customer relationship by communicating through a subscriber portal rather than relying upon email, phone and direct mailing for new service promotions, billing management and acceptable use notification

Technology

The SDE, characterized by a flexible and modular design, can be rapidly integrated into any service provider’s network using a broad range of standard interfaces. Service providers deploy a single solution to deliver services across cable, DSL, FTTH, 3G wireless and WiMax access networks bringing the potential of Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) to reality. Our policy control platform features high-level integration with both session border controllers and deep packet inspection elements, and depending on performance requirements can either be deployed centralized or as a distributed two-layer architecture that extends the policy decision function towards the access routers.

To learn more about deploying QoS-prioritized next generation services across your network, let’s talk.