Fixed residential HSI services as a single edge Broadband Network Gateway (BNG), virtualized Residential Gateway (vRGW), or as part of the Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) are a primary focus of AA performance, subscriber and traffic scale.
To the service provider, application-based service management offers:
application aware usage metering packages (quotas, 0-rating and so on)
new revenue opportunities to increase ARPU (average revenue per user) (for gaming, peer-to-peer, Internet VoIP and streaming video, and so on)
fairness (aligns usage of HSI network resources with revenue on a per-subscriber basis)
operational visibility into the application usage, trends, and pressure points in the network
To the C/ASP, service offerings can be differentiated by improving the customer’s on-line access experience. The subscriber can benefit from this by gaining a better application experience, while paying only for the value (applications) that they need and want.