Service Control For Broadband Service Providers; Cisco Service Control Capabilities - Cisco SCE 2000 4xGBE Installation And Configuration Manual

Cisco Service Control Capabilities

Service Control for Broadband Service Providers

Service providers of any access technology (DSL, cable, mobile, and so on) targeting residential
and business consumers must find new ways to get maximum leverage from their existing
infrastructure, while differentiating their offerings with enhanced IP services.
The Cisco Service Control Application for Broadband adds a new layer of service intelligence and
control to existing networks that can:
Cisco Service Control Capabilities
At the core of the Cisco Service Control solution stands the purpose-built network hardware
device: the Service Control Engine (SCE). The core capabilities of the SCE platform, which
support a wide range of applications for delivering Service Control solutions, include:
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Report and analyze network traffic at subscriber and aggregate level for capacity planning
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Provide customer-intuitive tiered application services and guarantee application SLAs
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Implement different service levels for different types of customers, content, or applications
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Identify network abusers who are violating the Acceptable Use Policy
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• Identify and manage peer-to-peer, NNTP (news) traffic, and spam abusers
Enforce the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
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Integrate Service Control solutions easily with existing network elements and BSS/ OSS
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systems
• Subscriber and application awareness—Application-level drilling into IP traffic for real-
time understanding and controlling of usage and content at the granularity of a specific
subscriber.
Subscriber awareness—The ability to map between IP flows and a specific subscriber for
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maintaining the state of each subscriber transmitting traffic through the SCE platform, and
enforcing the appropriate policy on this subscriber's traffic
Subscriber awareness is achieved using dedicated integrations with subscriber
management repositories, such as a DHCP or a Radius server, or via sniffing of Radius or
DHCP traffic
Application awareness—The ability to understand and analyze traffic up to the application
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protocol layer (Layer 7)
For application protocols implemented using bundled flows (such as FTP, which is
implemented using Control and Data flows), the SCE platform understands the bundling
connection between the flows and treats them accordingly
Application-layer, stateful, real-time traffic control—The ability to perform advanced
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control functions, including granular BW metering and shaping, quota management, and
redirection, using application-layer stateful real-time traffic transaction processing. This
requires highly adaptive protocol and application-level intelligence.
Programmability—The ability to quickly add new protocols and easily adapt to new
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services and applications in the ever-changing service provider environment.
Programmability is achieved using the Cisco Service Modeling Language (SML).
Chapter 1 Overview
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