The move to COTS-based infrastructure for data plane deployments – whether bare metal, virtual, or cloud – is well underway in the industry. This deployment transformation is largely driven by the flexibility and the promise of a better TCO. However, scalability and performance are often compromised when making the shift from purpose-built hardware.
Sandvine’s iQ platform allows service providers to take advantage of all of the benefits of moving through the phases of their cloud journey without sacrificing the performance, scalability, and flexibility needed to run networks on all access types and sizes.
Active Network Intelligence for dynamic, high-performing cloud-based networks.
The biggest challenges service providers face is increasing bandwidth consumption, which forces them to add capacity and resources to keep up with the market demands. However, service providers are often left with excess or outdated hardware that cannot be adapted to their new needs because of changing market dynamics.
Aside from bandwidth pressures, service providers are expected to run more reliable and higher speed networks, as subscribers demand better quality of experience (QoE) for their applications, while also keeping CAPEX and OPEX down. Cloud-based deployments have the promise of achieving dynamic networks with improved profitability and service agility, while delivering a higher quality of service (QoS) to users.
Sandvine’s ActiveLogic data plane was initially designed to be deployed in virtualized environments – it does not rely on any proprietary hardware and natively supports the latest x86 CPU architectures. It delivers equivalent functionality to bare metal ActiveLogic deployments. For more information, please refer to the datasheet.
The PacketLogic platform offers the best appliance performance range, regardless of access type. It offers service providers the flexibility and ease of operations that reduces time-to-market, but delivers a higher return on investment.