epiCentro
Complete Broadband solution from ADB
epiCentro offers a comprehensive suite of products that enable service providers to deliver reliable, predicable and ultra-fast Internet access into homes and small businesses.
The solution includes:
- Complete software stack for broadband gateways with modular architecture ready for next generation services
- Wi-Fi Mesh Technology ensuring reliable Wi-Fi coverage and performance
- Monitoring and diagnostic platform assuring superior Quality of Service
- Professional Device Management Platform via TR-069 protocol
- Rich portfolio of high-quality gateway hardware
epiCentro STACK
Complete software stack for broadband gateways
The epiCentro STACK is a full-featured software suite with all the functionalities required for a broad range of networking user equipment including Residential Gateways, Integrated Access Devices and Small Business Routers.
The Stack is portable and scalable to adapt to a wide range of devices, which may differ in terms of supported functions (IPv4/IPv6 bridging / routing, Quality of Service, VoIP, NAS and printing services, security, local and remote management, VPS, etc.), WAN and LAN interface technologies, IC components, processing and data forwarding capabilities, and memory size.
The epiCentro STACK is composed of an integrated set of functional components that can be assembled in different supersets realizing the functionality requested by specific type of gateway. In particular, the stack has been designed with the following characteristics:
- Linux based
- Hardware-independent, to ensure rapid portability across different HW platforms
- Modular design, based on an open and expandable architecture, which allows an easy addition of new software components at multiple layers (kernel modules, middleware, “OS-native” or execution environment applications)
- Configuration, management and control operations realized by a flexible Configuration Manager that provides a unified framework supporting different agents for local and remote management, and means for simple but effective
inter-process communication - Secure development environment; secure software distribution and deployment
- Provisioning of Software Development Kits (SDK), which can be used to adapt existing components and/or integrate new ones (e.g., GUI web pages, remote management data model, application-level software) without requiring a direct access to epiCentro source code
Main features:
- Pre-integrated with industry leading chipset solutions
- Wide experience with in-field upgrade from legacy software stacks
- Ready for next generation services through a modular software architecture
- Reduced time to market
- Extensive diagnostic capabilities to improve the Quality of Experience
- Multi-layer security architecture
- Advanced WAN wireline connectivity technologies and WAN hybrid access
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV) / Software Defined Network (SDN)
epiCentro operates on all ADB Gateways
The epiCentro STACK has been successfully ported and deployed on more than 20 different models of broadband gateways, designed by either ADB or ODMs.
In particular, the stack is in use on entire current ADB portfolio of residential and SMB gateways that completely addresses current market needs for broadband access, from entry level to high-end devices designed to maximize future-proofing of the Broadband solution.
ADB epiCentro gateways cover a wide variety of residential and SMB application environments. For both market segments, ADB portfolio includes powerful high-end xDSL and FTTx Integrated Access Devices (IAD) for multi-play services, as well as xDSL routers supporting Internet access, offering an industry leading combination of cost versus performance.
epiCentro PMP
epiCentro Professional Management Platform is a cloud-based carrier-class Access Control System (ACS) for remote management of Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) based on TR-069, supporting automatic service provisioning, control, assurance, secure massive firmware upgrades, device inventory management and performance monitoring.
epiCentro PMP benefits
- Subscribers enjoy seeing their connected devices simply work together
- Service providers cut down help-desk calls and reduce operational costs of managing subscribers’ base growing in number and complexity
- Service providers appreciate easy integration with legacy OSS/BSS systems for plug and play service activation
epiCentro PMP value proposition
- epiCentro PMP “Zero Touch Activation” dramatically reduces devices installation effort
- epiCentro PMP allows automated assurance, troubleshooting, configurations and upgrades of the complete multivendor home environment
- epiCentro PMP inventory, statistics, alarms monitoring permits the management of the full installed base
epiCure
Beyond traditional troubleshooting
epiCure is a complete and modular solution designed by ADB to help broadband and broadcast operators to enhance devices monitoring and diagnostic processes, to reduce help-desk cost, to monitor overall end-point devices health, set complex and correlated KPI, collect and analyze data metrics. The platform enables failure prediction and end-users’ behavior analytics. With one setup, the operator can run all services or start with one and then extend or shift to the other.
It features real-time configurable alerts and very flexible dashboards able to present all parameters of the network.
epiCure allows operators to deliver their services with the highest possible quality.
epiCure value proposition:
- Collects data from multiple sources (e.g., ADB CPE QoE agent, Syslog protocol, third-party ACS)
- Enables problem prevention, diagnostics and resolution by:
- boosting root cause analysis
- facilitating troubleshooting
- enabling solutions triggering
- Prevents problems for predictive care
- using BIG DATA technology for even deeper data analysis
- anticipating possible service degradation
- correcting issues before they occur
- Troubleshoots issues for assisted help desk
- triggering analytical tests
- monitoring specific KPIs
- supporting targeted alarm raising
- boosting problem resolution
- Features flexible graphic dashboards
- enabling various data consolidation and interpretation
- supporting different audiences inside operator’s organization (help-desk, network engineering, product managers)
- allowing to easily create custom dashboards, apply filters, zoom in/out, generate heat-maps.
ADB Mesh Solution
ADB Mesh solution has been designed specifically to support broadband and TV operators in delivering reliable wireless connectivity. ADB Mesh improves the coverage and performance of Wi-Fi networks.
A Mesh Network consists of multiple routers communicating with each other. It is more reliable than traditional Wi-Fi network. Coverage can be extended simply by adding nodes. Each node determines the best path to route the traffic
- Wi-Fi Mesh Router is the only node of the network connected to the Internet
Wi-Fi Mesh Nodes are connected to the router or to other nodes, and are used to deliver connectivity and increase coverage
Benefits of Mesh technology
Mesh technology brings fundamental enhancement when Wi-Fi devices are deployed in medium or large environments, scattered throughout different floors or in presence of obstacles or walls. It increases the coverage in residential environment and delivers connectivity in SMB premises, without office cabling.
Unique advantages of ADB Mesh solution:
- The same Wi-Fi technology and user experience fully integrated into all ADB devices
- Complete E2E proposition including Cloud Platform, companion App, home devices, epiCure and data analytic capabilities
- A user-friendly mobile app helps users to install and maintain their Mesh networks with minimal effort
- A centralized Cloud Management Platform for full deployment, configuration and network management
- ADB Mesh solution, together with epiCure, creates a fully deployable product that enables operators to monitor, analyse and predict problems with the network