Telecom equipment manufacturer Arris International announced ARRIS Wireless Intelligence, a vendor-agnostic analytics and reporting tool offers service providers thorough and real-time insights to better manage public WiFi solutions.
Arris says the cloud-based solution offers fast and flexible integration and scaling, and is optimized as part of the company’s pre-integrated, service provider WiFi offering. The platform, which is being showcased at the SCTE’s Cable-Tec Expo in Denver this week, accumulates data from multiple inputs, enabling management, operations, and marketing personnel to visualize their WiFi network’s active actions.
These facets of the system enable users to visualize their deployed WiFi network quickly, and understand how each access point, and other network devices are utilized, through a fully virtualized and hosted offering, according to the company. ARRIS Wireless Intelligence offers analytics on several metrics like access point utilization, OS type, subscriber data consumption, even session duration. Pre-built reports are generated by the system that are customizable for different stakeholders within the service provider. These reports are formed by variables like geography, SSID type, vertical market, and individual property, Arris says.
“Consumer demand for bandwidth is becoming both insatiable and ubiquitous, so the ability to provide a fast, seamless WiFi experience outside of the home, throughout a service provider’s community, is becoming the next big opportunity and challenge. Arris Wireless Intelligence is essential for service providers to begin integrating data management into their Wi-Fi solutions,” Dan Whalen, president of network & cloud at Arris, comments in a statement. “By offering easily accessible data on a range of important variables, our innovative solutions give our customers the information they need to make key decisions around WiFi deployment and utilization.”
The company says the system is vendor-agnostic, compatible with other systems, and includes application programming interfaces that are easy to integrate.
