Introduction; Cisco Service Control Solution - Cisco SCE2020-4XGBE-SM Configuration Manual

Cisco Service Control Overview
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Introduction

This chapter provides a general overview of the Cisco Service Control solution. It introduces the Cisco
service control concept and capabilities.
It also briefly describes the hardware capabilities of the service control engine (SCE) platform and the
Cisco specific applications that together compose the total Cisco service control solution.
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Cisco Service Control Solution

The Cisco service control solution is delivered through a combination of hardware and specific software
solutions that address various service control challenges. Service providers can use the SCE platform to
support classification, analysis, and control of Internet and IP traffic.
Service control enables service providers to:
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As the downturn in the telecommunications industry has shown, IP service providers' business models
need to be reworked to make them profitable. Having spent billions of dollars to build ever larger data
links, providers have incurred massive debts and faced rising costs. At the same time, access and
bandwidth have become commodities where prices continually fall and profits disappear. Service
providers have realized that they must offer value-added services to derive more revenue from the traffic
and services running on their networks.
Cisco service control solutions allow the service provider to capture profits from IP services through
detailed monitoring, precise, real-time control, and awareness of services as they are delivered.
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Capitalize on existing infrastructure.
Analyze, charge for, and control IP network traffic at multigigabit wire line speeds.
Identify and target high-margin content-based services and enable their delivery.
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