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Zeugma SmartBoost Simplifies Bandwidth On Demand

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

New Application Will Let Hill Country Telephone Customers Use Apple iPhones, Roku Digital Video Players, and Standard Web Browsers to Boost Bandwidth

JULY 27, 2009, VANCOUVER, BC—Zeugma Systems, a supplier of open telecommunications solutions for broadband service providers (BSPs), today announced the availability of SmartBoost, a new Smart Series application allowing subscribers to instantly increase their broadband speed. Leveraging the Zeugma Services Node’s (ZSN’s) unique Open Application Sandbox (OAS) and robust traffic management capabilities, SmartBoost lets BSPs quickly, easily, and inexpensively implement what has long been an industry goal: the ability for subscribers to self-provision temporary bandwidth increases. Furthermore, SmartBoost extends this capability beyond the PC-based web browser, bringing it directly to subscriber televisions and web-enabled smart phones.

Key characteristics include:

SmartBoost requires no integration with external systems; all required functionality is inherent to the Zeugma Services Node (ZSN), dramatically simplifying implementation. Traditional approaches require modification to a myriad of devices such as broadband remote access servers (BRAS), policy servers, and access nodes, which severely complicates implementation, driving up both cost and time-to-market.
SmartBoost extends bandwidth self-provisioning to other devices such as digital video players from Roku and iPhones from Apple, enabling bandwidth boosts by remote control or smart phone. To date, subscriber self-provisioning has been limited to the web browser.
SmartBoost works seamlessly over any broadband access network technology.
SmartBoost can be used in conjunction with SmartVideo, which automatically allocates incremental bandwidth for certain streaming video services such as Netflix.

According to Larry Pechacek, business development manager with Hill Country Telephone, “SmartBoost will give us another tool to upsell our customers to higher bandwidth tiers and advanced services, such as those we currently offer with Zeugma’s SmartVideo application. Equally important, from a technical ease-of-implementation standpoint, all we have to do is drop the app into our ZSN.”

Matt Davis, program director of IDC’s Consumer Multiplay Services and Business Multiplay programs, added, “Broadband operators have long considered enabling their subscribers to dynamically vary the bandwidth they consume, but found it difficult to implement this feature both technically and operationally. New technologies like the Zeugma solution take an innovative approach to an old problem and make it much easier to implement this type of service.”

Roku’s vice president of business development Jim Funk said, “By taking advantage of software development kits (SDKs) in both the Roku digital video player and the Zeugma Services Node, SmartBoost opens up a rich universe of subscriber-service provider interaction via the television. Although some of these capabilities are available on PC-based web browsers, the television is a more natural interface for the video services broadband providers are marketing.”

Like other Smart Series applications, SmartBoost runs within the Zeugma Open Application Sandbox (OAS), an application support framework employing the ZSN’s scalable, high-performance compute grid. The ZSN is able to simultaneously support a wide variety of OAS-based applications, including SmartVideo, SmartMeter, SmartVOIP, and SmartMonitor, as well as third-party applications.

“SmartBoost significantly enhances the ability of broadband service providers to create and market more granular, flexible bandwidth offerings,” said.Curtis Sherbo, Zeugma director of product line management. “And by simplifying the process of ordering new services and eliminating any delay in their implementation, SmartBoost can take advantage of subscriber spontaneity and dramatically increase take-rate for new services.”

SmartBoost is also compatible with existing policy control and user authentication systems. SmartBoost is available now, contact Zeugma for additional information.

About Zeugma Systems

Zeugma Systems delivers open telecommunications solutions that accelerate new service deployment for broadband service providers of all types. The Zeugma Services Node, a service delivery router, combines massive compute resources with next-generation capacity, service awareness, and subscriber management to yield reliable application integration, rapid turn-up of new services, and a quality video experience. For additional information, please visit www.zeugmasystems.com.

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Zeugma offers variable bandwidth on demand for consumers

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

SmartBoost offers casual or schedule bandwidth increases programmed via PC, TV remote or smartphone.

Zeugma Systems today announced new capabilities that enable broadband service providers to offer consumers variable bandwidth, on a scheduled or casual basis, to facilitate video downloads or other high-bandwidth data needs that vary over time.

The Zeugma SmartBoost, one of the Smart Series applications on the Zeugma Services Node, a smart network edge device, is already deployed by Hill Country Telephone, an independent telco in Texas, and is generally available.

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Zeugma Unveils Service Delivery Router, Expanding Revenue Opportunities for Broadband Service Providers

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BT One of Several Top Tier Service Providers to Trial Innovative New Broadband Aggregation System

MAY 27, 2008, VANCOUVER, BC—Zeugma Systems, a privately held supplier of open telecommunications solutions, unveiled its flagship product today, the Zeugma Services Node (ZSN). The ZSN is a service delivery router (SDR) that combines massive compute resources with next-generation capacity, service awareness, and subscriber awareness in a carrier-grade, fully redundant system. The result is a new class of equipment that enables service providers to:

Rapidly prototype and launch new revenue-generating services,
Identify and monitor session flows on a highly granular per-subscriber, per-service basis,
Manage individual session flows in order to enforce policy-based quality of service (QOS) and capacity,
Develop applications, such as targeted ad insertion, that add value to individual session flows,
Reduce the number and types of edge devices required to deliver high-value services while performing standard broadband aggregation and subscriber management functions.

The rapid prototype and rollout of new services is achieved via the Zeugma Open Application Sandbox (OAS). The OAS is a framework able to support a multiplicity of applications developed by Zeugma, the service provider, or even third parties. The Zeugma OAS runs on a linearly scalable, high performance compute grid, giving broadband service providers (BSPs) a platform that is truly limitless in its potential to support new services. Application program interfaces (APIs) give applications running on the Zeugma OAS the ability to continuously and dynamically modify the behavior of underlying deep packet inspection (DPI) functions and the dynamic bandwidth manager. This allows, for example, finely-targeted ad insertion, QOS-enhanced over the top (OTT) video, content and URL filtering, enhanced VOIP, active quality of experience (QOE) monitoring, and many other applications.

According to Kevin Woollard, BT (LSE: BT.A, NYSE: BT) technical strategist, office of the CTO, “As an operator we need highly scalable, high performance solutions that allow BT to deliver applications and services in the future that we haven’t even thought of yet. We are currently investigating the Zeugma Services Node’s capabilities, and are excited by the potential of the technology. Whether BT, Zeugma, system integrators, or third-party developers write the applications, the ZSN appears to offer the embedded compute resources able to support them.”

Added Michael Howard, cofounder and principal analyst with industry research firm Infonetics Research, “The future relevance and competitiveness of broadband providers is dependent on their ability to quickly develop and deploy new services—today's value creation and value add is largely in services, and not in the capacity and pipes to deliver such services. The ZSN is the first of a new breed of service delivery routers and could be a game changer. While other suppliers have begun taking steps in this

direction, Zeugma is starting at the next level by integrating general purpose compute resources as a key element of a high-performance edge network element. While throughput capacity will always be a requirement, compute performance may well be the most important metric for this class of network equipment.”

Designed Explicitly for Broadband Service Delivery

The ZSN provides a new level of intelligence, extensibility, and flexibility to broadband service providers through its unique platform architecture, which is composed of the following elements:

1. Compute Blades. The 14-slot Z7 can be configured with up to thirteen Compute Blades (CBs) while the 6-slot Z2 can accommodate up to five CBs. Each CB provides up to 40,000 DMIPS (Dhrystone millions of instructions per second) of processing capacity, yielding a system that scales to 520,000 DMIPS, the equivalent of 520 billion non-floating point operations per second. The ZSN dynamically load balances applications across all available CBs. CBs can be added or removed without impacting system performance and the compute grid will automatically expand and contract to optimize available resources.

2. Traffic Blades. For high-speed broadband aggregation, traffic forwarding, and deep packet inspection, Traffic Blades (TBs) are provided with either 10 x 1GE ports or 6 x 10GE ports. This provides up to 720 Gbps of unidirectional interface capacity on the Z7 and 240 Gbps on the compact Z2.

3. Zeugma Open Application Sandbox (OAS). The ZSN is the first carrier-grade platform to include a native application execution environment. In a manner similar to general-purpose operating systems, the Zeugma OAS not only provides APIs for system control functions but also provides a secure execution environment that isolates applications from external threats, from each other, and from critical system resources. Applications can be added, placed on-line, and taken off-line with no impact to other applications or the ZSN itself.

4. Service Delivery Applications. Zeugma provides a number of applications that can be run within the Zeugma OAS. These include application (e.g., VOIP, VOD) driven QOS (ADQ), application-driven bandwidth (ADB), active VOIP and video quality of experience (QOE) monitoring, URL filtering, and others.

Zeugma president and CEO Andrew Harries observed, “With active trials under way at a number of tier one European and North American service providers, it is increasingly clear that the rapid development and turn-up of new services on a per-subscriber basis is the overriding objective for every network operator. The most logical way to realize that goal is to tightly meld service delivery applications with a high-performance traffic management and forwarding system. This approach uniquely combines internet-time application delivery with carrier-grade reliability.”

Deployed at broadband aggregation points within service provider networks, the ZSN can work in conjunction with existing broadband aggregation and subscriber management systems or it can provide those functions itself in greenfield builds or as part of general network upgrades.

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About Zeugma Systems

Zeugma Systems is a privately held telecommunications equipment supplier delivering open solutions that accelerate new service deployment for broadband service providers of all types. The Zeugma Services Node, a service delivery router, uniquely combines massive compute resources with a high-capacity data plane to yield reliable application integration and rapid turn-up of new services together with broadband aggregations and subscriber management. For additional information, please visit www.zeugmasystems.com.

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Engage PR 510-748-8200 x207

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Zeugma Rethinks Edge Routing

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Zeugma Systems Inc. comes out of hiding today to talk about an edge router that, it says, has been crafted to help carriers produce new services more quickly -- an idea that's been popular with router vendors lately.

Zeugma Develops Next Gen Broadband Service Delivery Router

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Zeugma, a start-up based in Vancouver, Canada, unveiled its Zeugma Services Node (ZSN), a broadband edge aggregation device designed to help broadband operators identify, monitor, manage and customize service flows traversing their networks. Zeugma integrates routing, subscriber, and service management in a single platform powered by high-performance, multi-core packet processors. The system leverages a customized compute grid architecture and up to 520,000 DMIPS compute capacity to identify and monitor session flows on a highly granular per-subscriber, per-service basis. Read more.

Zeugma Systems Comes Out of Stealth With Service Delivery Router Technology

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A new company called Zeugma Systems today came out from behind the curtain to introduce what it says is a high-powered service delivery router.

The tool will help operators identify, monitor and manage applications on their networks so they can move up the value chain to deliver more targeted services. Read more.

Zeugma unveils services router

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Zeugma Systems, a privately held supplier of open telecommunications solutions, unveiled its flagship product today, the Zeugma Services Node (ZSN). The ZSN is a service delivery router (SDR) that combines massive compute resources with next-generation capacity, service awareness, and subscriber awareness in a carrier-grade, fully redundant system. Read more.

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IDC: Consumers willing to pay for faster Net video

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A new IDC study shows both service providers and content distributors may be missing revenue opportunities by not offering consumers the option of paying more for faster Internet video downloads. Read more.