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90 Vol. 40 No. 3 - August 2018 Issue products In the service provider market, revenue margins are declining. Facing diminished profit margins, service providers need innovative ways to increase revenue streams, reduce churn and attract new customers. “As one of the only complete, fully managed turnkey solutions for distributing smart home services, ABOX42’s dotIO is a game- changer for service providers, opening up potential new sources of revenue with minimal risk. With our dotIO solution, launching smart home services has never been easier. This smart home solution offers service providers everything they need to launch a smart home service, including a high-performance, secure gateway; modern sensors and a real-time cockpit for service monitoring. The solution is based entirely on software, big data cloud services and mobile applications for iOS and Android™ devices, all of which can be hosted and managed by the operator for simplicity purposes,” ABOX42 told Broadband Journal. Using the ABOX42’s smart home gateways and sensors, end- users can remotely monitor and control household systems such as checking doors and windows; checking for motion in the house; checking for water leakage in the laundry room or near fish tanks; temperature; locating different goods or people and cameras for monitoring. All of these things can be controlled from a smart phone app. “The business models are clearly defined and there are real-world use cases. A new report from Juniper Research predicts that global revenues for smart home hardware and services are set to grow from US$ 83 billion in 2017 to US$ 195 billion by 2021. Our dotIO smart home solution puts service providers in an excellent position to capitalise on these revenue opportunities,” concluded ABOX42 GmbH. For more information, see www.abox42.com Smart home services VIAVI’S XPERTrak is a complete HFC monitoring and maintenance system, designed to help operators to identify subscribers most at risk of churning, pinpoint where to go and what to do to fix their issues as well as to support the final field fix and the fix process. “The specific XPERTrak innovation that we would like to highlight is the virtualisation of key plant maintenance capabilities previously performed by hub-based HW. This approach was chosen to ease operator transitions from today’s centralised architecture to distributed access architectures, including Remote PHY. VIAVI worked with all leading R-PHY network equipment vendors to define and implement a standards-based approach leveraging the R-PHY node as the upstream receiver for spectrum analysis and sweep and as the downstream transmitter for sweep meter telemetry messaging. The key to this architecture is the Remote CMTS/CCAP Interface (RCI), a software agent which brokers standards-based NDF/NDR communications between the various network components. The RCI software can run on commercial off-the-shelf servers or on a virtual machine located close to the CCAP,” VIAVI told Broadband Journal. With this approach, the return sweep process uses the same existing deployed field meters and workflows for both legacy and R-PHY nodes, simplifying life for technicians. High- performance upstream spectral analysis is also enabled through this architecture to address the upstream ingress remediation use case. The rollout of R-PHY and other distributed access architectures is going to be a years-long process and involve network equipment from many different vendors, creating a multitude of combinations for technicians to manage. “With XPERTrak, technicians don’t need to be concerned whether they are working on a legacy or R-PHY node from any of the many different vendors. The tools, processes and user interfaces will all be the same, insulating them from underlying complexities,” concluded VIAVI Solutions. For more information, see www.viavisolutions.com HFCmonitoring and maintenance

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