Active B'Band OSS Gets Pentaho Analytics

Active Broadband Networks has integrated Pentaho Big Data Analytics with its Dynamic Broadband Service Manager (DBSM) to provide network operators with a suite of tools for analyzing the volume of stream data collected by the DBSM from network elements in broadband access networks.The DBSM uses streaming protocols including IPDR, RADIUS accounting and IPFIX/NetFLow to collect network, service and subscriber usage data, which is processed and stored in a Cassandra NoSQL Big Data database. Network operations personnel can run reports against the data for day-to-day network performance monitoring, while network engineers and product managers can analyze the data for capacity and service planning. Pentaho offers integrated support for Cassandra and a suite of business analytics and data integration tools.