Sandvine Quota Manager wins award at Global Broadband Traffic Management Congress

Recognized as Best Real Time Charging Platform for Customers

WATERLOO, ON, Nov. 14, 2014 /CNW/ - Sandvine (TSX: SVC), a leading provider of intelligent broadband and network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today announced that Sandvine Quota Manager was recognized as "Best Real Time Charging Platform for Customers" at the Global Broadband Traffic Management Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

The Broadband Traffic Management Awards were established to celebrate and give recognition to quality, innovation and leadership achievements made in network management and big data industry. The judging panel was comprised of analysts representing six major independent research firms including: Broadband Trends, Core Analysis, Heavy Reading, ICT Intuition, Informa, and Senza Fili.

Sandvine Quota Manager enables service providers to better meet the unique needs of their subscribers with targeted, tier-based, metered usage plans and accurate data cap management to retain and attract customers, including:

• Application-based service tiers and bolt-ons that appeal to specific subscriber tastes
• Roaming packages, real-time notification and bill-shock prevention
• Shared data plans, including family plans and multi-device data bundles
• Sponsored connectivity and third-party bundles, including zero-rating of partner services
• Universal service plans that bridge access technologies

"It is truly an honor to have Quota Manager recognized by such an esteemed panel of major industry analyst judges," said Don Bowman, co-founder and CTO. "Sandvine Quota Manager offers the flexibility, ease-of-deployment and time-to-market advantages that rigid incumbent solutions, which rely heavily on custom professional services, cannot quickly deliver."

ABOUT SANDVINE
Sandvine's network policy control solutions add intelligence to fixed, mobile and converged communications service provider networks to enable services that can increase revenue and reduce network costs. Powered by Sandvine's Policy Engine and SandScript policy language, Sandvine's networking equipment performs end-to-end policy control functions including traffic classification, and policy decision and enforcement across the data, control and business planes.  Sandvine's products provide actionable business insight, the ability to deploy new subscriber services and tools to optimize traffic while enhancing subscriber Internet quality of experience.

Sandvine's network policy control solutions are deployed in more than 250 networks in over 90 countries, serving hundreds of millions of data subscribers worldwide, www.sandvine.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
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SOURCE: Sandvine

INVESTOR CONTACT: Rick Wadsworth, Sandvine, [phone] ext. 3503, [email protected]; MEDIA CONTACT: Dan Deeth, Sandvine, [phone], [email protected]