Solutions : Wireline : IPTV

Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are looking to Internet Protocol television (IPTV) as a key weapon in both defending their existing core businesses and expanding into new, high-value services. More than just an incremental service offering, IPTV is rapidly becoming a service imperative that establishes the foundation on which multiple next generation services and customer relationships will be built.

Intelliden provides Intelligent Networking Solutions for centralized configuration, provisioning and compliance management of IPTV network infrastructure to deliver next generation services with greater ease and simplicity.

Challenges

Several technical challenges lie ahead before IPTV services become mass market offerings and generate substantial revenue streams for CSPs:

• Guaranteed quality of service (QoS) - Consumers demand guaranteed TV-quality video and superior user experience. Flawless delivery of resource-intensive and delay-sensitive IPTV services requires deterministic performance.
• Stringent security requirements - Ensuring the security requirements dictated by providers of licensed video content as well as subscribers is essential for the broad based adoption of IPTV.
• Complex integration requirements - Coordination of a diverse ecosystem of middleware and network components such as content servers and core and edge networking devices is a complex task.
• Maximize operational efficiencies and service uptime - The ability to rapidly and accurately provision services, ensure service availability and resolve any service failures quickly is essential for maximizing customer satisfaction and profitability.

Solution

Intelliden's Intelligent Networking Solutions for IPTV enable service providers to control, manage, and scale their converged IP network for the assured delivery of high bandwidth, low latency next generation services e.g. IPTV, VoD. Intelliden's automated approach streamlines and simplifies the operational management of multi-vendor network devices across the network, accelerates network-wide service rollouts, and improves operational efficiencies.

Intelliden's Intelligent Networking Solutions for IPTV consist of the following applications:

• Dynamic Resource Provisioning (DRP) provides real-time allocation of network resources such as network elements, paths, and bandwidth to meet the dynamic resource demands of converged, multi-service network environments.
• Policy Based Compliance Management (PBCM) ensures that network configurations can be carefully controlled, and in the case of errors or exceptions, can be automatically rolled back to "golden" configurations with any disruption to existing services and customers.
• Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) provides highly granular device awareness, and comprehensive change and configuration management across multiple vendor network devices, and is optimized for the demanding and evolving requirements of service provider broadband networks.

Benefits

Intelliden's Intelligent Networking Solutions for IPTV provide the following benefits:

• Streamlines and simplifies the operational management of multi-vendor network devices across the network
• Facilitates the rapid addition of new subscribers and services to the network
• Improves network reliability, resiliency, and quality of experience
• Accelerates network-wide service roll-outs and improves operational efficiencies
• Eliminates time-consuming and error-prone manual scripting and device activation processes