Sandvine predicts streaming to use 2/3 of peak bandwidth in 2015

Sandvine's Peak Period Analysis Dashboard provides broadband analysis, predicts future trends

WATERLOO, ON, Aug. 1, 2012 /CNW/ - Sandvine, (TSX:SVC; AIM:SAND) a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today announced the launch of its Peak Period Analysis Dashboard, the latest dashboard in its Network Analytics library.  Sandvine's Peak Period Analysis Dashboard provides valuable statistics and predictions using actual network data captured within the periods of peak bandwidth usage to enable more accurate capacity planning.

"Bandwidth usage statistics are a key ingredient for accurate capacity planning," said Tom Donnelly, COO, Sales and Global Services, Sandvine. "Sandvine's Peak Period Analysis Dashboard is the industry's first true capacity planning tool that goes beyond traditional measurements of prime time bytes and projects the applications, service tiers and geographic locations impacting peak bandwidth usage today."

Sandvine's Peak Period Analysis Dashboard is one of the dashboards included in Sandvine's Network Analytics. Sandvine's interactive dashboards provide aggregate, network-wide key performance indicators that can be granularly measured and categorized by location, device and subscriber tier, and allow trending across peaks—by time and actual peak usage.

"Communications service providers have massive amounts of network and usage information at their fingertips," said Jeff Cotrupe, Global Program Director, ACEM and OSSCS, Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan. "CSP-focused business intelligence solutions like Sandvine's offer engineers and executives access to data in a unified visual form, so they can develop innovative solutions to everyday problems."

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ABOUT SANDVINE
Sandvine's network policy control solutions focus on protecting and improving the quality of experience on the Internet. Our award-winning network policy control equipment and software helps fixed and wireless and mobile operators better understand network traffic, manage network congestion, create new services and revenues, mitigate traffic that is malicious or undesirable to subscribers, deliver QoS-prioritized multimedia services and increase subscriber satisfaction. With over 200 service provider customers in over 85 countries, serving hundreds of millions of broadband and mobile data subscribers, Sandvine is enhancing the Internet experience worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.sandvine.com. 

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