The move to COTS-based infrastructure for data plane deployments – whether bare metal, virtual, or cloud – is well underway in the industry. This deployment transformation is largely driven by the flexibility and the promise of a better TCO. However, scalability and performance are often compromised when making the shift from purpose-built hardware.
Sandvine’s iQ platform allows service providers to take advantage of all of the benefits of moving through the phases of their cloud journey without sacrificing the performance, scalability, and flexibility needed to run networks on all access types and sizes.
The iQ31020 platform is designed primarily for mobile, fixed (FTTx, DSL, wireless), satellite, and enterprise networks, with lower capacity needs. It gathers network intelligence to provide performance insights as well enforces fine-grained policy to enable operators to optimize network resources and improve quality of experience (QoE).
This is a high performance 1RU appliance offering up to 20 Gbps of throughput, accessible through fixed networking ports. The iQ1020 platform can be configured to support a broad range of use cases enabled by Sandvine across multiple solution areas.
The iQ42080 platform gathers network intelligence to provide performance insights as well as enforces fine-grained traffic policies enabling network operators to take actions necessary to improve Application Quality of Experience (App QoE) for their subscribers.
The iQ42080 is a high-performance, short depth 2RU rugged appliance offering up to 80Gbps of throughput, supporting various functions such as capacity licenses and connectivity options (1/10/25GE) as well as 10GE internal and external bypass options. The iQ42080 is designed to support a broad range of inline and passive use cases offered by Sandvine or to update and expand existing deployments.
The iQ42300 platform gathers network intelligence to provide performance insights as well as enforces fine-grained policy to enable network operators to take actions necessary to improve quality of experience (QoE) for users.
The iQ42300 platform is a high performance 2RU appliance offering up to 320Gbps of throughput, accessible through three options of modular I/O devices. The iQ42300 platform can be configured to support a broad range of use cases enabled by Sandvine across multiple solution areas.
The iQ52600 platform gathers network intelligence to provide performance insights as well as enforces fine grained policy to enable network operators to take actions necessary to improve the quality of experience (QoE) for users.
The iQ52600 platform is a high performance 2RU appliance offering up to 640Gbps of throughput, accessible by 12 x 100GE networking ports. The iQ52600 platform can be configured to support a broad range of use cases enabled by Sandvine across multiple solution areas.
Application and Network Intelligence for dynamic, high-performing cloud-based networks.
The biggest challenges service providers face is increasing bandwidth consumption, which forces them to add capacity and resources to keep up with the market demands. However, service providers are often left with excess or outdated hardware that cannot be adapted to their new needs because of changing market dynamics.
Aside from bandwidth pressures, service providers are expected to run more reliable and higher speed networks, as subscribers demand better quality of experience (QoE) for their applications, while also keeping CAPEX and OPEX down. Cloud-based deployments have the promise of achieving dynamic networks with improved profitability and service agility, while delivering a higher quality of service (QoS) to users.
Sandvine’s ActiveLogic data plane was initially designed to be deployed in virtualized environments – it does not rely on any proprietary hardware and natively supports the latest x86 CPU architectures. It delivers equivalent functionality to bare metal ActiveLogic deployments. For more information, please refer to the datasheet.
The PacketLogic platform offers the best appliance performance range, regardless of access type. It offers service providers the flexibility and ease of operations that reduces time-to-market, but delivers a higher return on investment.