Application Service Providers
Companies are focusing on core competencies and are increasingly outsourcing their IT assets, including applications hosting. Moreover, with web 2.0 and SOA architectures, applications are increasingly provided as a service through the Internet. More and more, Application Service Providers need to deliver applications with the best possible performance levels to their customers, whether they are end-users or large enterprises. But managing a shared WAN access can be a challenging task for any ASP willing to guarantee performances and customize services.
With the StreamSense platform and Streamcore Data Center solutions, Application Service Providers can offer new personalized visibility, monitoring, and performance control services to their customers. Management and Provisioning features are all aimed at simplifying configuration tasks and making change management easy, whether the ASP needs to manage a few hundred or thousands of customers.
StreamSense Enable Application Service Providers to offer value-added services:
- Differentiated Quality of Service Per Customer. If ASP WAN access links are shared between several customers, the Entity control feature guarantees a minimum bandwidth for premium business customers. The ABBA engine ensures fair service between end-users.
- Application Performance Visibility Per Customer, via real-time monitoring and reporting features.
ASP delivering applications to enterprise over the Internet can also offer services based on Internet solutions deployed at the customer's premise:
- Application QoE control. The Advanced QoS feature gives priority to ASP applications over other types of Internet traffic.
