SpeedConnect, a Michigan-based operator of fixed and mobile wireless Internet access services has selected Sandvine’s Virtual Series, deploying multiple instances of Sandvine’s Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) Virtual Series for traffic management to improve subscriber quality of experience.
Sandvine, a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, said that the Virtual Series gives innovative communications services providers (CSPs) economical access to the same powerful Network Policy Control functions once available only to larger operators. The service control solution delivers Sandvine’s powerful Policy Engine, PCEF, and PCRF as an elastically-scalable virtual network function for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)-ready networks.
SpeedConnect Chief Executive Officer, John Ogren
A fully virtualized solution was the only way to enable our entire network with advanced policy control capabilities at once. Through previous acquisitions, we had become familiar both with Sandvine’s solutions and those of competitors, but only in traditional deployment models. Sandvine’s ability to offer the same policy capabilities through a virtualized solution allowed us to extend the benefits of advanced policy control to all of our subscribers over multiple states in a way that made sense today.
Tom Donnelly, Sandvine’s COO, Sales and Global Services
Sandvine is very excited to be able to offer the benefits of network policy control to every market segment. Increasingly in North America, operators will compete on the ability to offer truly innovative service plans to their subscribers. The Sandvine Virtual Series helps bring the policy capability that supports those plans to both established operators and young, innovative competitors.
