NI Deployments [163]: O2 Ireland Uses Arieso to Optimize Cell Sites and Reduce Congestion

Arieso [here] announced it ".. is working with O2 Ireland to make significant improvements to its network performance. Using location-aware technology, ariesoGEO is allowing Telefonica O2 Ireland to precisely place cell sites in areas with high network demand, optimising the performance of valuable network resources, and providing detailed insights into the network quality experienced by customers .. ariesoGEO has already helped identify specific changes in data traffic in major cities during business hours, allowing Telefonica O2 Ireland to optimise its network accordingly".

  

"The need for more cell sites, necessary to bolster capacity constrained networks, is currently creating a significant investment challenge for mobile operators. Getting it wrong can be not just unprofitable, but can actually be making congestion on the network worse. ariesoGEO is enabling O2 Ireland to accurately place sites and monitor them to ensure they meet performance requirements".

See "O2 Ireland boosts network performance and customer experience with Arieso" - here.

Standards News: BBF Released Policy Control Framework

Broadband Forum (BBF) standard for policy control : TR134 - Broadband Policy Control Framework  (here) was just released, edited by Ezer Goshen from BandWD and Bill Welch from Juniper Networks..

Abstract

TR-134 defines an architectural Framework to provide policy control of Broadband Multi-Service Networks. This Technical Report specifies business requirements, use cases, and a minimum set of Information Flows that facilitate the management and execution of policies.

The document defines ".. seven high level use cases.  The uses cases are used to describe the needs 

of Service providers and how they can be addressed using both provisioned and Policy based 

solutions.   Most of the seven use cases contain a number of more specific sub uses cases. These 

sub use cases represent the originally contributed use cases, and they have been consolidated on 

the basis of the underlying network functions that are used to address them:

• Layer 1 – 4 and QoS based Policy
• Layer 4 – 7 Traffic Policy
• Call Admission Control
• Authentication, Metering and Accounting Policy Use case
• Home Gateway use case
• Application Layer Policy [see chart below for one of the sub use cases] 
• Emergency Services Use Case"
   

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