Sandvine brings policy to 20 Telefonica territories

07 April 2011

Sandvine has announced that it is now providing its policy control product to Telefonica in over 20 countries, providing traffic control and management for the mobile operator.

Telefonica is using Sandvine's Policy Traffic Switch to collect network data and present that to executive management functions to help them to make business decisions and to enforce new policies in the network.

“As a global company, Telefónica’s network insight and business intelligence is key to understanding how we can better serve our vast subscriber base worldwide,” said Vicente San Miguel, CTO, Telefónica Corporate. “Working with Sandvine since 2008 has brought us closer to understanding and acting on the needs of our customers, while improving revenue opportunities and the cost-effectiveness of our network.” 
In one use-case, Telefónica’s UK subsidiary, O2, is helping reduce consumer bill shock, in compliance with the new European Union Data Roaming regulation, using Sandvine’s Quota Management solution. Sandvine’s solution monitors subscriber roaming usage in real-time and proactively keeps subscribers informed of their usage through automated messaging that notifies subscribers when they are nearing and surpassing their quota.

At another subsidiary, Telefónica recently introduced a menu of tiered pricing plans that accommodate subscribers’ personalized network usage patterns and budgets. These plans were designed with the help of Sandvine’s Business Intelligence solutions and are enforced in the network by Sandvine’s Usage Management product.  Under this model, subscribers can choose from plans that range from a basic email or social networking plan, to more comprehensive plans that also cover real-time entertainment usage. 

Telefónica is also helping to protect their global consumers, through the implementation and adoption of measures to combat child pornography through Sandvine’s URL Access Control product.  Many governments, regulators, and public advocacy groups are increasingly looking to ISPs to prevent users from inadvertently, or deliberately, accessing questionable Internet sites.  In this use-case, Sandvine’s URL Access Control leverages the PTS traffic identification capabilities to restrict access to specific websites with minimum impact on both the subscriber and the service provider.