Optimize Broadband Networks Management

Cisco Broadband Policy Manager helps you deploy, administer, and deliver multiple services on your customers' converged IP networks. Designed for superior service delivery and rapid time to market for new services, this policy manager's benefits include:

• Multivendor network device control
• Reduced time and expense for system integration
• Highly scalable distributed deployment
• High-availability characteristics

This broadband policy manager delivers advanced network intelligence, applying policies and dynamically configuring a network in real time. It is ready for the applications that next-generation networks need to provide:

• IP telephony
• Video on demand
• Interactive gaming

You can install the following elements in service provider networks and deploy them in highly scalable and resilient configurations:

• Cisco Broadband Policy Manager software, which can change network parameters for subscriber data sessions
• Cisco Broadband IP Services Module, which implements specific use cases
• Cisco Broadband Policy Design Studio, a visual development environment to create, deploy, and manage rules and policies
• Edge Voice Capacity Admission Control, which determines whether the access network's available resources can support new voice calls without degrading quality
• Edge Video Capacity Admission Control, which determines whether the access network's available resources can accept new video service requests

The latest release of Cisco Broadband Policy Manager provides an upgrade to support Cisco Service Control Engine 3.0.