DPI/QoS Deployments (20): MWEB [South Africa] Uses PeerApp to Improve QoE

  

PeerApp, a media caching vendor, announced "that it has achieved its 100th customer, MWEB, a leading Internet Service Provider in South Africa. MWEB has deployed the PeerApp UltraBand 5000 to improve their subscribers’ Quality of Experience (QoE), increase network efficiency, and reduce international transit costs."

See "PeerApp Continues Rapid Growth and Surpasses 100 Customer Mark" - here.

“PeerApp allowed us to deliver a differentiated quality of service to our customers,” noted Jaco Muller, Head of Technology Operations for MWEB. “The UltraBand solution allows our high speed broadband customers to receive content eight times faster than alternative providers. We have taken control of content delivery in our network and have seen a higher quality of experience for our entire customer base"

Source: PeerApp

Deploying a content cache solution requires a network element that will redirect cacheable traffic (P2P, streaming video) to the caching system (like PeerApp's UltraBand 5000).

In order to be efficient, and avoid the redirection of irrelevant traffic, a DPI device is often used. The DPI device will also ensure that the costs savings achieved by caching are maintained by controlling P2P traffic on the transit or peering links.

PeerApp is partnering with several DPI vendors (Allot, Sandvine and Arbor Networks/Tektronix Communications - here) in order to introduce a complete solution.