QoS/SLA Enforcement for Service Providers

Service providers (xSPs) made large investments in infrastructure only to have the price of bandwidth become commoditized. Your profitability hinges on your ability to increase revenue from existing resources through over-subscribing network bandwidth and offering new lucrative services. These services may include tiered (differentiated) services such as "gold", "silver", or "bronze", and classes of service that deliver guaranteed bandwidth to support specific business-critical applications such as VoIP, Oracle, and Citrix.

Policy-Powered Networking
Allot Communications NetEnforcer® policy enforcement devices offer service providers a complete suite of bandwidth management tools for better managing network resources, enabling over-subscription, and enforcing service level agreements (SLAs). The NetEnforcer lets service providers immediately identify and limit excessive bandwidth consumers and put "recovered" bandwidth to profitable use.

NetEnforcer on a service provider network

Three Steps to Policy-Powered Networking
Policy-Powered Networking lets you efficiently manage subscriber traffic accessing the service provider network. The process of implementing a Policy-Powered Networking solution includes three steps:

1. Provision new subscribers
Use the NetEnforcer to retrieve customer information from your Customer Care and Billing system (CCB) or text-based customer list. This process automatically retrieves the subscriber's SLA type and defines the minimum and maximum bandwidth limits on the NetEnforcer.

2. Enforce the rules
Upon matching a traffic session with a subscriber, NetEnforcer forwards the packets according to the bandwidth parameters outlined in its SLA.

3. Verify/Bill
The NetEnforcer sends detailed traffic information to the billing/reporting systems, including addresses, applications used, and the quantity of traffic sent. This allows you to create advanced invoicing schemes such as usage-based billing.

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