The solution is designed to enable cable operators to deploy prepaid broadband services independent of existing provisioning and billing systems. It's intended to allow cable operators to automate prepaid transaction processing, cable modem activation, service monitoring, and prepaid renewals or terminations.
Active Broadband's PPSS automatically enables the activation of cable modems at the subscriber premises via a captive web portal using standard credit or debit card transactions. The prepaid customer doesn't have to be in the billing system, and there is no service order handled by the provisioning system. The cable operator offers a pre-defined selection of services available to customers, including bandwidth, speed and price options.
Upon approval of the service transaction by merchant processing, the PPSS interacts with the modem to enable a boot configuration that corresponds to the specific services that customer has paid for, and the service is dynamically activated. When service expires or usage thresholds are exceeded, service requests are redirected back to the web portal.