Platform Requirements
- Minimal number of nodes: 2x Mediation, 2x Database and 2x Policing nodes; 6 nodes for full high-availability deployment
- Logate® Enterprise Linux 1.0 installed on every node - Read more tech specification
Minimal Hardware Requirements
- Mediation: 2.0 GHz Quad-core 64-bit CPU, 4GB RAM
- Policing: 2 x 2.0 GHz Quad-core 64-bit CPU, 4GB RAM
- Database: 2 x 2.0 GHz Quad-core 64-bit CPU, 8GB RAM
Enterprise Application Integration
- Authentication and Authorization – Radius RFC2865
- Accounting – RFC2866
- Change of Authorization - RFC5176
- Billing and OSS – WS SOAP v1.2
- Logate® Enterprise Linux CLI interface for platform maintenance operations: installation, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting
- GUI interface: Helpdesk usage, O&M administration; service and subscribers management
- WebService administration interface for subscribers, sessions and accounting full management operations like subscriber provision, profile setup, usage, session disconnect
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Real-time Policy Control
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OpenFunctions support: Policy engine API that allows operators to extend policing rules on their own
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Pseudo-code language for rapid service development
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Policy enforcing in real-time
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Access Control: black and white lists
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Tiered services bundles: bandwidth limits, session duration limit, session max traffic limit, IP address pools, firewall and content filtering controls
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Time-Of-Day policy control
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Time-based and volume-based quota policies customizable on per service basis
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Policy control of captive services: no balance credits, subscription expiration
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Highly customizable charging and rating policies
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Network congestion controls: bandwidth fair usage enforcing
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Policy control of on-demand services: bandwidth- on-demand, video-on-demand, application services, turbo button
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Subscriber external control of predefined policies: content filtering during business hours and more
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Service roaming and service access controls depending on geography location
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Roaming charging plans that are based on location
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Application customization based on location and profile: portal privileges, advertisements, promotions, 3rd party system grants
The Fair Scheduler
- Task fair-scheduling: 140 priority levels, real-time nice calculation, starving protection, queue length
- Unlimited number of tasks: queue allocation per each combination pair of remote host and destination port
- O(1) task context switching
- Worker-thread lifetime: max requests to be processed before ending
- New worker-threads on demand in case od sudden requests increase of load
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The Absolute Advantage
Broad Canopy
- Web-based login
- Wi-Fi and WiMax access
- Service on Demand (bandwidth, video, application)
- Login redirect
- Captive portal services
- Tiered services
- Firewall and Content filtering
- Scheduled time of day policies
- Prepaid/Postpaid charging
- Fair usage policies with download limits
- Service roaming zones
- Parental controls
- Quota management
- Location and identity based services
- Promotions
- Balance credits failover
- Turbo button
Facts
- Processing 500 requests/second per dual core CPU
- Linear scalability factor
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