Applied Broadband is uniquely positioned to help its customers remain agile in the increasingly competitive broadband marketplace. We have worked with several companies, both large and small, in developing and launching numerous voice, video, and data broadband services and technologies. Our commitment to research and development along with innovative and practical software engineering has helped us to evolve several components, methodologies and models to address different customer scenarios. These reduce the cost, time-to-market, and risk of deployment while enhancing the end subscriber’s service experience.
Applied Broadband offers a depth of services across voice, video, and data technology in three key expertise domains:
NETWORK ENGINEERING
Expertise Domain
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Knowledge
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- Protocol modeling and emulation
- Capacity management, network dimensioning, and service modeling
- Quality of Service (QoS) implementation and policy management
- Network monitoring and optimization
- R&D of new broadband networking protocols
- International standards development and specification
- Interoperability testing and test automation
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- OpenCable™ platform and OCAP
- DOCSIS™ 1.0. 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0
- PacketCable™ 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and Voice Over IP protocols
- SIP enabled services
- PacketCable Multimedia
- Home networking protocols and gateways including CableHome™
- Downloadable Conditional Access (DCAS)
- Network management protocols
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Expertise Domain
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Knowledge
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- Requirements elicitation and analysis
- Software architecture and design specification
- Rapid Prototyping and proofs of concept
- Agile programming methodologies
- Quality assurance and performance testing
- Field trial design and management
- Ongoing deployment support and maintenance
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- Distributed systems and protocols
- Designs for scalability and high-availability
- Web services
- Database design
- Universal modeling Language
- All popular General Programming Languages
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SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
Expertise Domain
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Knowledge
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- Network Management Systems and Operations Support Systems (OSS/NMS)
- Billing system integration and extensibility
- Subscriber usage management and mediation systems
- System Integration and Test (SI&T)
- Security protocol architecture
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- Major back-office billing vendors and systems
- Public Key and Managed Key Infrastructures (PKI/MKI)
- Major provisioning system vendors and service activation technologies
- X.509 and FIPS 140-2
- IP Detail Record (IPDR)
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