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Today’s IP-based technologies enable us to communicate with anyone, anywhere, at any time. As people become accustomed to the conveniences of IP-based technology, the market is expanding to accommodate new customers and faster, more advanced products. To stay ahead and ensure success, service providers must guarantee fast, reliable, and user friendly services to their customers while also keeping costs low. Additionally, they must be flexible enough to add new capabilities and services as they expand their offering. The Owera eXtensible Automatic Provisioning System (xAPS) offers a solution for providers who wish to increase customer satisfaction and decrease maintenance costs while also staying open to future service possibilities. The Owera xAPS enables providers to remotely control and monitor customer premises equipment (CPE) and the services they deliver. Typically the CPEs deliver broadband internet access, VoIP and IPTV services to end users. Remotely controlled configuration as well as software management is necessary to ensure desired operation. Furthermore, problem detection through logging and service monitoring is required to detect and avoid degradation of the quality of service experienced by the end users. The xAPS solution automates Provider provisioning tasks for any deployment size. Built as a massively scalable solution, handling thousands of devices per minute on even the most modest server hardware, the xAPS solution provides rich provisioning functionality across multiple device management protocols such as the industry standard TR-069 and Oweras own “Owera Provisioning Protocol” (OPP). Scaling to deployments of millions of devices, the xAPS solution provides advanced features protecting the providers network, the quality of services delivered as well as the CPE investment from disruption and damage through continuously controlled and monitored roll-out of changes. |
