We’ve been optimizing broadband network performance for 15 years now and we’ve been awed throughout by the feats of our customers’ engineering teams – creating networks that have powered the broadband revolution, withstood pandemic surges, and are now accommodating new generations of applications.
Today, streaming, gaming, two-way communication and more are taxing networks like never before. Seasonal dips in traffic are evening out as overall consumption is increasing. Rising usage increasingly is encroaching on upstream bandwidth availability as subscribers take full advantage of the capabilities of broadband.
Broadband engineering and operations teams work extremely hard at maintaining network health in this ever-evolving and complex environment – often with a ton of manual effort. As complexity increases, it’s becoming more and more mission critical for those DIY approaches to be supplanted by automated solutions. Fortunately, new AI- and ML-powered tools are available to provide the visibility and automation needed to monitor trouble points, to respond to threats and to keep bandwidth availability and resiliency at peak levels.
Here’s why that matters: The DOCSIS 3.1 and higher network environments require clean infrastructure to achieve optimal subscriber experiences and to deliver the bandwidth subscribers are paying to receive. That’s not easy when network impairments hide, drift or appear intermittently. The elusiveness of trouble spots can cost providers’ operations teams time and expense as they struggle to target root causes or to access visibility into the history of problems. Increased traffic can slow networks and diminish subscriber satisfaction as well.
At OpenVault, we’re providing the tools the industry needs to maximize network performance and business results. We’ve innovated Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) and Profile Management Application (PMA) solutions that give our customers extra sets of eyes to quickly detect and correct network issues, and extra bandwidth that can turn a sluggish network into a speedway.
Our OV PNM and OV PMA solutions – integrated with our Congestion Manager into our breakthrough Vantage platform – use the power of AI and ML to zero in on network impairments and to ensure that modulation profiles are optimized to match the capabilities of subscribers’ DOCSIS 3.1 or higher modems. The results:
- Early detection of physical layer impairments — including upstream noise, group delay, and ICFR.
- Impairment correlation and map-based drill-downs — pinpointing root causes and accurately locating tap or premises problems.
- Historical trend analysis — showing evolution patterns of impairments.
- Engineer-ready reports — ensuring no noise, just clear signals.
- Rapid, cost-effective creation of bandwidth – up to 40% more leveraging existing plant.
- Greater ARPU – via subscriber upgrades to higher speed plans
One thing we’ve learned in our many years in the industry is that nobody knows operators’ broadband networks better than the engineers and operations teams that built and maintain them. But we also know that today’s communications landscape is presenting those teams with more challenges than ever. As those arise, OpenVault’s OV PNM and OV PMA have your back.
To learn more about OV PNM, OV PMA and the entire Vantage platform, visit us at The Independent Show August 10-13 in Salt Lake City or at SCTE Tech Expo September 29-October 1 in Washington, DC. Or simply reach out to us at sales@openvault.com – we’d love to hear from you and to help you improve subscriber experiences and your bottom line.