Leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions, Sandvine announced that Paratus Telecom in Namibia has selected Sandvine’s universal Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) to enable pre-paid and post-paid service plans for their newly launched LTE network in Namibia.
One innovative postpaid plan powered by Sandvine at launch is the “Flix” package which targets subscribers in Namibia who are movie buffs. For a low monthly fee, the “Flix” plan provides subscribers with 5GB of data to use on any application they see fit, and 100GB of data to use exclusively on Netflix, allowing them to binge-watch hours of their favorite movies and television shows.
Sandvine said that its Service Delivery Engine (SDE) provides communications service providers (CSPs) with universal PCRF – a policy controller that supports the 3GPP (mobile) and PCMM (cable) standards as well as other interfaces such as RADIUS CoA and REST – in order to facilitate deployment in any mobile, fixed or converged network.
Schalk Erasmus, Chief Operating Officer, Paratus Telecom
The tight integration between Sandvine’s traffic classification, PCRF and PCEF solution allows us to rapidly enable and update the service plans our subscribers are looking for,” said
Tom Donnelly, COO, Sales and Global Services
These PCRF orders have been diverse in nature with them being distributed across all of our major sales regions, from both new and existing customers, and with and without Sandvine’s Policy Traffic Switch fulfilling the role of PCEF.
