At the CableLabs Summer Conference in Keystone, CO, ASSIA is introducing cable-focused upgrades to its CloudCheck WiFi diagnostics and optimization platform.
Despite the increase of broadband cable bandwidth to the home and the adoption of 802.11ac 5 GHz WiFi infrastructure, delivering a quality WiFi experience remains a challenge due to performance, congestion, and coverage issues. During global deployments and trials, ASSIA found that on average:
50% of homes experience slow WiFi due to broadband performance bottlenecks.
40% of subscriber devices never connect to the 5 GHz band.
30% of subscribers experience coverage issues in the 5 GHz band.
The CloudCheck software platform is designed to provide operator visibility and control over home WiFi. The solution is based on a scalable cloud and agent-based architecture to provide real-time diagnostics, self-healing and optimization of WiFi networks via APIs and a mobile app.
Upgrades targeted for the cable industry include:
Radio Resource Management - Self Organizing Networks (RRM-SON) cloud-based management platform with speed test capability for isolating performance issues related to cable or the WiFi network
Multi-platform software support across hardware including cable gateways, access points, extenders, repeaters, and mesh networks
Customer care APIs for diagnostics, recommendations and optimization visibility of the WiFi and broadband network
Network-wide analytics and reporting
Customizable configurations and groupings to segment and partition deployments
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