Cisco Service Control Application For Mobile Networks

The Cisco® Service Control Application for Mobile Networks provides application- and subscriber-level awareness for mobile data networks, offering traffic optimization, incremental service security, tiered services, and premium IP service delivery.

The solution runs on the Cisco SCE 1000 and SCE 2000 Series Service Control Engines, yielding unsurpassed performance and reliability suitable for deployment in carrier networks. Accompanied by a powerful set of management tools and application programming interfaces (APIs), the Cisco Service Control Application for Mobile Networks helps enable transparent integration into the operations support system (OSS) and ease of integration of the largest service control deployments.

Cisco Service Control technology comprises transport-agnostic, purpose-built hardware running extensible service applications designed to augment mobile data networks with advanced capabilities. The technology allows mobile providers to take control over their network by facilitating their ability to analyze, control, individually manage, and meter any number of IP services running on their IP network.

By deploying a Cisco Service Control Engine and the Cisco Service Control Application for Mobile Networks, operators can:

• Perform detailed application- and subscriber-aware network profiling to improve network visibility.
• Optimize traffic of bandwidth-hungry peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, thereby reducing network congestion and improving network performance.
• Identify and mitigate malicious attack traffic to protect the mobile provider from outbound attacks and their subsequent cost.
• Track and control individual subscribers' sessions based on application parameters to develop new service plans, capture additional markets, and increase customer loyalty.
• Develop advanced subscriber- and portal-controlled services through integration with back-office systems and policy servers—the Cisco Service Control solution integrates with a variety of policy server products, and its robust set of APIs also enables customer-specific integration.
• Integrate the Cisco Service Control Engine with third-party platforms to develop advanced "high-touch" services such as network-hosted contentfiltering or security enhancements—the Cisco Service Control solution allows for subscriber-level virtualization that scales to enable deployment at the performance level required in a mobile network.