Sandvine's Insights Product Family aggregates the intelligence collected from the entire network and visualizes it based on the use case deployed. Insights supports all solution areas deployed on the network, enabling you to reduce CAPEX, generate additional revenue, and improve quality of experience (QoE). The Insights portfolio combines the power of Insights Data Storage with the visualization of Deep Insights to enable service providers to manage outcome-driven use cases for networks.
As service providers transform their networks to cloud deployments and embrace automation, access to network intelligence that reveals network performance in context of delivered QoE will be critical, especially to verify that automation use cases are delivering the right outcomes. This intelligence is fed by Sandvine's deployed software, and enriched with attributes like subscriber, location, device, and service plan to ensure that the appropriate context is reflected in the presentation of the data for the different departments in the service providers' back office.
Insights Data Storage is a scalable database platform designed for analytical and exploratory use cases. A requisite component of Sandvine’s Analytics platform deployments, Insights Data Storage is designed for large scale deployments, where it can be used in conjunction with big data systems or where it fulfills the role of a data lake.
Scaling elastically and acting as one virtual cluster, Insights Data Storage includes a number of features specifically designed to natively enable big data functions and interoperability. The data is organized in a simple fixed schema, providing easy to use data that is available for your Sandvine Analytics use case needs.
Access or data volume has never been an obstacle for operators. In fact, the issue has always revolved around the relevance, accuracy, and usefulness of data. As networks evolve to new architectures for 5G and cloud deployments, increasing the context of data becomes more critical to make intelligence actionable. With the adoption of more devices, applications, and access types, the need for clear visibility and understanding is imperative to determine the root cause of network congestion, quality, or security issues.
However, many solutions cannot deliver the required context or insights in real time, instead performing this analysis after the fact, rendering them less effective in helping operators confidently make business and network decisions. It also drastically limits the effectiveness of any automation strategy, which requires this information to be constantly available for policy updates. As a network intelligence leader, Sandvine arms operators with the visibility and contextual awareness required to run world-class networks.
Sandvine’s network intelligence enhances ANI use cases, making them superior by adding relevant context, including application, device, and location to basic network statistics.
ScoreCard leverages Sandvine’s unique scoring technology to measure, score, and visualize how well key application categories are performing. It measures key network metrics (throughput, packet loss, and latency) and assigns a score from 1-5 for each application category. Scores are visualized with uses colored tiles (red, yellow, and green) for understanding at a glance.
This executive-level view is a powerful tool to understand application-based QoE on the network, which is pertinent to ensuring customer satisfaction. ScoreCard, the initial view in the ANI Portal, serves as an overview or early indicator for further investigation and troubleshooting via Sandvine use cases.