Cisco's New WAE Enables SP's Application-Aware WAN Services

 
Cisco announced it has added "..Cisco WAN Automation Engine(WAE) to its Evolved Services Platform (ESP), marking another key milestone in the company’s network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined-networking (SDN) strategy. These new capabilities will provide service providers with tools they need to analyze, visualize and control functions across multi-vendor, wide area networks (WAN)"

Cisco added quotes from Tencent, Italtel, TDS (Sandvine customer - here) , XO Communications and Wow! to the release, about the use of WAE or its predecessor, MATE.

Technology Highlights:

• Situational and Predictive Analysis: Uses historical traffic data and anticipated demand to produce real-time and predictive models that increase overall service velocity; calculates high traffic “what-if” analysis while offering solutions for ultimate load balancing; utilizes flexible policy routing to enforce latency and utilization constraints for overall network optimization.
   
• Traffic Visualization: Enables an accurate “total WAN” topology view with comprehensive modeling; collects and models traffic, equipment and topology data while maintaining the “state” of each and then maps everything together for holistic, real-time network transparency; utilizes time-sequenced global models to provide accurate forecasting across thousands of WAN nodes.
   
• Control and Automated Provisioning: Extends Cisco ESP advanced orchestration and management across the WAN and dynamically assesses total traffic views to allow on-the-fly WAN reconfiguration of path calculations.

See "Cisco Delivers Advanced Traffic Visibility and Control with New WAN Automation Engine" - here.

Security VAS Deployments [272]: TDS [US] Deploys Kindsight for Malware Protection

Alcatel-Lucent and TDS Telecommunications [see "DPI Deployments: TDS Uses Sandvine" - here] announced that ".. Kindsight security technology is powering TDS’ Hacker Alert service. The Kindsight Broadband Security solution enables TDS to continuously analyze Internet traffic for threats, inform subscribers and provide directions on how to remove ‘malware’ or other infections on a device. TDS Hacker is the fastest selling value-added service in the company’s history and already ranks as the second most popular premium service that TDS offers".

See also "Kindsight Helps ISPs to Detect, Block and Remove Bots" - here.

See "TDS Telecommunications Corp. uses Alcatel-Lucent’s Kindsight solution to help protect U.S. customers from malicious hacker attacks on home network" - here.

DPI Deployments [233]: TDS Telecom [US] Uses Sandvine

Sandvine announced an expansion order to a previously unnamed win (see "$2M DPI Win for Sandvine - US DSL Provider" - here).

This time the name is there (but the deal size is not) - TDS Telecommunications ".. one of the top 10 telecom providers in the United States. TDS Telecom, an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC), most recently deployed Sandvine’s Fairshare Traffic Management and Business Intelligence products .. TDS Telecom, like many North American telecom providers is using Sandvine’s QualityGuard for congestion management and Sandvine’s business intelligence to maximize subscriber’s quality of experience and extend the life of network infrastructure investments. Sandvine’s QualityGuard is a real-time congestion control system that optimizes user experience for variable performance links. TDS Telecom is gaining critical insight into the applications on their network so they can make strategic decisions that impact new services and subscriber preferences in the future".

TDS has nearly 1 million customer connections in service.
See "Sandvine Helps TDS Telecom Maximize Subscriber Quality Of Experience" - here.