The Broadband Toolkit™ contains an innovative collection of unique software components, data models, and proven methodologies invented by the Applied Broadband engineering team. Service providers and product vendors use our Toolkit to accelerate technology development timelines and assure optimal subscriber experience during deployments.
In many cases, components of the Toolkit are integrated directly into larger software applications, becoming a permanent and living part of the service delivery infrastructure.
The licensing and support model for the Toolkit is extremely flexible, empowering our customers with a diverse spectrum of deployment scenarios.
Here are a few select tools within the Broadband Toolkit:
- Pipeline™ Universal IP Detail Record (IPDR) Engine
- Capacity Planning and Network Dimensioning algorithms and models for DOCSIS™ and PacketCable™ networks and services
- Advanced service experience and performance measurement tools
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) software libraries for developing secure applications and servers
- Failure Modes and Effects models to support availability and reliability engineering analysis of complex service delivery infrastructures
As part of the Broadband Toolkit™ family of software components, Applied Broadband presents Pipeline™ Universal IP Detail Record (IPDR) Engine, enabling the rapid deployment of next generation service management applications for cable voice, video and data services. Pipeline is the world’s first software that addresses a cable operators’ need to collect, process, normalize and distribute massive amounts of IPDR data for visibility into their networks, devices, services and subscribers’ overall experience.
With support for the IPDR streaming protocol, a mandatory requirement for DOCSIS® 3.0 equipment and proposed for tru2way™, ETV, Canoe and other initiatives, the collection and analysis of IPDR data is the critical foundation for a variety of cable operator business needs, ranging from metered billing, commercial services and targeted advertising to so-called ‘fair use’ bandwidth management. The challenge is that today’s networks already support millions of cable modem devices with multiple services per device, requiring an operator to collect and manage billions of IPDR records per day and feed them into multiple OSS/BSS applications across their organization.
PIPELINE KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS
| SECURITY | Pipeline is built with industry standard security technologies at its core and includes support for Transport Layer Security (TLS). |
| DATA NORMALIZATION & COMPRESSION |
Redundant or proprietary values that may be contained in the original data messaging are reorganized and saved in an efficient and compressed normalized form. |
| UNIVERSAL DOCSIS FUNCTIONALITY |
Pipeline SAMIS supports DOCSIS 1.1 and DOCSIS 3.0 IPDR service definitions, IPDR/SP 2.2, CRANE, as well as Cisco’s Proprietary SAMIS/XML protocol. |
| FORMAT TRANSFORMATION | Re-organize and transform network data into portable data formats such as CSV or XML for use by other systems. |
| DATA EXPORT TO BSS/OSS/BILLING | Data may be scheduled for export to Business Data Systems using standard file exchange technologies such as NFS, FTP, RCP/(SCP) and HTTP. |
| INTEGRATION INTERFACES | The Pipeline Refinery provides a standard export interface for higher-layer service management applications to access collected data content. |
| PERSISTENT STORE | All data is saved in forms that can be recovered for subsequent analysis, audit or failure recovery. |
| REMOTE MANAGEMENT | Pipeline provides comprehensive management functionality to enable operational visibility and administrative control over the IPDR infrastructure. In support of ongoing monitoring and service diagnostics within an operational environment, Pipeline includes detailed logging and management capabilities to IPDR session state, and other critical IPDR events and transactions. |
| CLUSTERING | Clustering architectures enable high-availability and scalability in large operational deployments. Pipeline is designed to be compatible with proven clustering architectures and configurations. |
| SCALABILITY | Pipeline deployments can process billions of IPDR records per day. This results in a small hardware deployment footprint resulting in reduced capital and operational costs. |
| EXTENSIBILITY | Pipeline provides a flexible platform for the development of new protocols and IPDR Service Definitions. |
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