Cable Operators

Leading broadband and cable operators have chosen Packet Design's solutions to help deliver best-in-class grand-slam broadband data services

Cable operators and broadband service providers are competing for their slice of a huge pie of consumers who want converged fixed and mobile Internet, voice, and entertainment services. As demanding and sensitive applications are converged over a single IP network infrastructure, it becomes even more imperative for operators to maximize reliability and predictability of service in order to spur adoption and reduce costly customer churn. Yet IP networks are far from predictable today. Brownouts, intermittent disruptions, and unpredictable and unexplained behavior are still an ongoing reality that represent a business risk for broadband and cable operators.

Route Explorer and Traffic Explorer enable a higher level of service assurance for IP services by enabling service provider operations to optimize peering and transit, perform capacity planning, plan and validate routing and traffic changes, and more quickly resolve complex network problems. Packet Design solutions complement SNMP device management and long-range planning tools, redefining and empowering a new level of best practices that lead to reduced costs and increased competitiveness, customer satisfaction and revenues. Packet Design solutions are scalable and expandable to meet the needs of the largest and most diverse network operations, across multiple service offerings including MPLS VPNs. Route Explorer and Traffic Explorer's monitoring and analysis features provide unprecedented real-time visibility into correlated traffic and routing operations, enabling service providers to proactively catch and avert problems as they emerge, before they develop into service disruptions or security breaches. Troubleshooting features speed responsiveness and reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) of service disruptions. Operationally accurate planning features model a variety of routing and traffic changes and failure scenarios, allowing operators to streamline routine maintenance, ensure network continuity in face of failures, and make more informed decisions about routing and peering.

More Packet Design Solutions

• Service Providers: Provide enterprise Internet and IP WAN services customers with higher service assurance and more competitive visibility into their IP Services, improve operational efficiency and productivity, achieve greater top and bottom-line results
• Enterprises: Achieve the mandate of delivering a predictable and explainable IP service infrastructure, increase network engineering's productivity and responsiveness, and strengthen IT's credibility
• Government: Ensure availability and reliability of critical public services, increase productivity, and enhance network management visibility against security threats
• Education: Deliver reliable and predictable IP service, with network-wide visibility for enhanced security and availability

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