Showing posts with label Clearsky Technologies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clearsky Technologies. Show all posts

Saturday, May 19, 2012

DPI Deployments [149]: i wireless Manages Bandwidth Hungry Subscribers


3 months ago, Sandvine announced ClearSky Technologies (a managed services provider to regional wireless carriers) as a customer for its DPI products (see "ClearSky, Nex-Tech Wireless [USA] Use Sandvine" - here). A recent announcement by ClearSky shows one of the deployments (although it does not mention the DPI gear supplier).

ClearSky announced "the signing of a multi-year agreement with Iowa Wireless Services, LLC (dba i wireless) for Total Traffic Manager (TTM) .. i wireless, along with many other rural carriers, has been challenged with the need to increase data capacity to satisfy a small number of bandwidth-hungry users, which is not cost effective. ClearSky’s TTM will allow i wireless to manage their existing network resources more efficiently while increasing revenue from newly conceived data plans based on subscriber usage trends".

Maggie Squires (pictured), i wireless Director of Marketing said: “The popularity of video streaming and peer-to-peer file sharing sites can quickly tax a carrier’s resources, and cause a major inconvenience to the remaining subscribers who are left with congested airwaves. ClearSky’s TTM allows us to assign policies on data traffic in a way that promotes fair allocation of resources while retaining the extreme heavy users, thus providing excellent service for all our subscribers and avoiding the high cost of additional capacity

According to Sandvine, the policy manager typically used in these deplyoments is Sandvine's own policy manager.

See "i Wireless Chooses ClearSky for Traffic and Policy Management and Renews Long-term Contract" - here.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

DPI Deployments [124]: ClearSky, Nex-Tech Wireless [USA] Use Sandvine


Sandvine announced that ".. it is bringing its Network Policy Control solutions to ClearSky Technologies, a provider of hosted and managed mobile data solutions for 80 wireless carriers serving eight million subscribers, and Nex-Tech Wireless, a North American wireless operation".

Clearsky Technologies is a provider of mobile data services to regional wireless carriers, and recently annouced an LTE Services Suite: "ClearSky’s LTE Services Suite enables smaller carriers to offer high-speed, low-cost, reliable 4G data services to subscribers in rural areas. The LTE Services Suite includes: Hosted Evolved Packed Core (EPC) and Radio Access Network (RAN) (here)".

Bill Poellmitz (pictured), ClearSky President & CEO said: “Adding Sandvine products and solutions to our technical repertoire broadens our managed services offering for carrier customers and will help ensure the best experience for subscribers across North America .. Sandvine’s Real-Time Entertainment dashboard will enable us to deliver the tools and features our clients need for valuable insight into actual subscriber metrics”.

NEX-TECH Wireless, a subsidiary of Rural Telephone, Golden Belt Telephone and Mutual Telephone, is a premiere wireless provider offering high-tech wireless solutions to residents in 40 counties of central and western Kansas as well as local coverage to 4 counties in Colorado.

See "ClearSky Technologies and Nex-Tech Wireless deploy Network Policy Control' - here