Chapter 1 General Overview; Information About The Cisco Service Control Concept; The Cisco Service Control Solution - Cisco SFE2000P Installation And Configuration Manual

General Overview
This chapter provides a general overview of the Cisco Service Control solution. It introduces the Cisco
Service Control concept and the Service Control 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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Information About the Cisco Service Control Concept

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The Cisco Service Control Solution

The Cisco Service Control solution is delivered through a combination of purpose-built hardware and
specific software solutions that address various service control challenges faced by service providers.
The SCE platform is designed to support classification, analysis, and control of Internet/IP traffic.
Service Control enables service providers to create profitable new revenue streams while capitalizing on
their existing infrastructure. With the power of Service Control, service providers have the ability to
analyze, charge for, and control IP network traffic at multigigabit wire line speeds. The Cisco Service
Control solution also gives service providers the tools they need to identify and target high-margin
content-based services and to enable their delivery.
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. However, capturing real profits from IP services requires more
than simply running those services over data links; it requires detailed monitoring and precise, real-time
control and awareness of services as they are delivered. Cisco provides Service Control solutions that
allow the service provider to bridge this gap.
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Information About the Cisco Service Control Concept
Cisco Service Control Capabilities
The SCE Platform
Information About Management and Collection
The Cisco Service Control Solution
Service Control for Broadband Service Providers
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