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Cable operators are deploying IP network infrastructure to serve as a cohesive, open, scalable foundation for their next generation service offerings. However unlike the traditional RF cable network, the IP network presents a new set of challenges, including:

• Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) —Guaranteeing QoS, scalability, and reliability for multiple services across such a diverse architecture is essential for maximizing customer experience and increasing revenues.
• Stringent security requirements —Ensuring the security requirements dictated by providers of licensed video content as well as subscribers will be essential for the broad based adoption of the next generation services.
• Network resource optimization — With HDTV requiring up to 4X the bandwidth of standard television signals, cable operators must optimize existing infrastructure to keep capital costs under control.
• Maximizing operational efficiencies and service uptime —the ability to rapidly provision new services, ensure service availability and resolve any service failures quickly will be essential for maximizing customer satisfaction and retention.

Intelliden’s Intelligent Networking Solutions for Cable enable cable MSOs to control, manage, and scale their converged IP network for the assured delivery of high bandwidth, low latency next generation services. The Intelliden solutions have been designed to support reliability, scalability and redundancy requirements of next generation cable architectures such as switched digital video (SDV). Built upon an open architecture, the Intelliden solutions can be easily integrated with other OSS applications such as service provisioning, fault management and subscriber-based policy management. Intelliden also works closely with industry associations such as CableLabs to support interoperability with standards.

Intelliden’s Intelligent Networking Solutions for Cable consist of the following applications:

• Dynamic Resource Provisioning manages the complete network activation process from the initial element and path configuration, resource availability checks, to on-going dynamic resource allocation and exception handling.
• Network Change and Configuration Management automates configuration changes to heterogeneous network elements - including core routers and switches, headends, CMTS and CPE – based on the real-time state of the devices thereby preventing errors and service outages.
• Policy Based Compliance Management provides a single application for managing comprehensive network policies (e.g. regulatory, industry, security and operational), continually validating all network configuration changes against these policies, and intelligently resolving any non-compliant conditions.

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