A provider of intelligent broadband network solutions, Sandvine (News - Alert) has launched a new version of Fairshare Traffic Management.
Fairshare Traffic Management is a turn-key product for mobile congestion management and analytics that maximizes users’ quality of experience and extends the life of network infrastructure investment.
Company officials said that Sandvine’s Fairshare Traffic Management 4.0 introduces a new dynamic control system which measures the achieved network quality and acts to maximize it.
This newest version interoperates with third-party vendors to offer “mobility- awareness.” In addition to accurately identifying a moving subscriber’s cell location, the true mobility-awareness dynamically evaluates the congestion level of the cell and also applies traffic management policies in real-time, alleviating any congestion.
Company officials said that this is the only solution that offers true mobility-awareness. The competing products can identify the initial location where the mobile subscriber’s device connected, but not subsequent network locations to which the subscriber has moved.
For the mobile, Sandvine’s Fairshare Traffic Management 4.0 enables sector-based congestion management based on dynamic congestion detection capabilities, superior to statically-provisioned cell capacity; fair-use network policies to maintain the highest quality of experience during times of congestion for the maximum number of users’ interactive applications
In addition, it also enables real-time network location-based policies such as charging, advertising and communications; support for location-based pricing for mobile data to create bundled and tiered services that match subscriber usage, dependant on the subscriber’s location; and more.
“Our latest version of Fairshare Traffic Management brings a powerful and dynamic congestion control system that works in concert with our policy decision and enforcement capabilities,” said Don Bowman, chief technology officer at Sandvine.
Bowman said that operators can cost-effectively manage their mobile networks to deliver optimal performance without resorting to crude approximations such as daily or hourly network-wide traffic management policies.
Additionally, Sandvine also announced that it has won five new broadband service provider customers, including two that purchased the company’s Network Analytics product.
Anshu Shrivastava is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anshu’s articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Rich Steeves
