Dynamic Bandwidth Management and Usage Accounting
The Alcatel-Lucent 5750 SSC allows service providers to differentiate and evolve from basic HSI-access commodity services. With traditional flat-rate, “all-you-can-eat” Internet services, subscribers often think they are paying too much for a service without the guarantee that sufficient bandwidth is provided when needed. The Alcatel-Lucent 5750 SSC combats this issue by enabling dynamic, mid-session policy modifications based on subscriber- or application- initiated bandwidth requests, usage metering, and accounting functions. The system’s design enables the introduction and enforcement of specific volume, bandwidth and usage quotas (e.g., for peer-to-peer Internet applications, to create differentiated service subscriptions and apply application-usage quotas).
Volume-metering functions keep track of consumed resources on a per-subscriber and per-service basis and can dynamically trigger session QoS or bandwidth policy changes when thresholds are crossed. Alternatively, users can be redirected to a subscriber portal to buy more bandwidth capacity or upgrade a service. As a result, end users have more control over their service experience, with the option to pay per usage rather than lock themselves into a fixed bandwidth tier that may not meet their budget or application requirements.
Alcatel-Lucent 5750 Subscriber Services Controller 11