Carriers and service providers are working today in a highly competitive environment. The customer has multiple choices for access – cable, DSL, satellite, fixed-wireless IP, hosting and wholesale – and many more when selecting his data centre provider. And switching providers is easy. In addition, many carriers have made huge investments in network infrastructure, such as access and backbone networks, and find themselves with decreasing revenues (due to competition) on the other side. As a result, carriers and service providers are looking for new ways to better use their existing infrastructure in order to:

• Manage Over Subscription - enable carriers to successfully serve more subscribers over a given infrastructure.
• Increase revenues and reduce CAPEX and OPEX
• Offer new services that will attract new customers and especially the high paying ones.
• Retain existing customers
• Offer Premium Services - increase revenues by providing subscribers with new choices of premium services, attract new subscribers and increase the ARPU (Average Revenue per User)
• Enforce User Policies with Fair and equal access Set policies and caps to control aggressive bandwidth users who attempt to consume more than their share of bandwidth and disrupt performance for others.
• Manage virtual server farms
• Advanced Billing - charge on actual use of network services and bandwidth used. Solutions catering for both fixed and scalable bandwidth plans.
• Centralized Reporting and Management
• Network security - control and contain security threats such as denial of service to subscribers.
• Real time Network Traffic monitoring - understand user- and application-level network utilization for trouble shooting, analysis and long-term planning.
• Remove or limit Illegal traffic type such as p2p at layer 7

Services such as Bandwidth management, caching, content filtering, http virus scanning and mail scanning may be offered transparently. Cut down your costs and generate recurring revenues. Enable the services that your business model requires. Speak with your local Opteq partner to tailor a solution best suited for your requirements.

What every ISP will know is what level of multiplexing they can get away with without causing customer churn. Typically this will be similar to; if the client averages go over 40-60% link usages at peak times then he is likely to complain of service problems. Opteq Traffic management technologies will push that up to around 80-90% without you, the carrier doing anything at all.