Wednesday, July 7, 2010

DPI/QoS Deployments (13): Elisa (Finland) Uses NSN for Quality of Service Differentiation

    
Nokia Siemens Networks announced recently that Elisa Corporation (operating in the Nordic countries, the Baltics and Russia, with over 2 million consumers) is using "network features from Nokia Siemens Networks that provide flexible Quality of Service (QoS)". This refers to Elisa's mobile broadband service (Elisa offers both mobile and DSL broadband services)

See "Elisa customers first to enjoy more flexible mobile broadband" - here.

"This is the first commercial deployment of Nokia Siemens Networks QoS differentiation solution built by integrating multiple network elements, including its radio network and network management system. Elisa is using the QoS differentiation to prioritize time and resource critical traffic to ensure customers receive the service they have paid for even when networks are congested .. The Quality of Service differentiation solution takes effect in heavily loaded networks when requests to use the network can exceed its capacity. It enables the prioritization of data traffic, according to policies determined by subscription agreements, to fairly divide the available resources. Different priorities can be allocated to different user segments or applications and can be applied dynamically depending on the network load. Nokia Siemens Networks QoS aware scheduler also enables Elisa to change QoS priorities even during a data session and maintain a particular bit rate in simultaneous upload and download sessions."
  
Unfortunately, the release does not say which products are used to create the solution and whether they are made by NSN or by one of its technology partners. NSN's site has a section on the Quality of Service differentiation offering (in mobile broadband) - here, detailing the main benefits - without any reference to products.
 
Related post "NSN: "Radio capacity can be boosted further by applying QoS differentiation" - here. As application based policies are part of the above solution, it has to be more than just managing the radio network

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