First Mile Access Networks and Enabling Technologies

Potential of Effective Bandwidth Management

The automated scheme of managing networks by discovering the resources, creating a connection topology, and then managing or provisioning traffic can yield significant benefits in intelligent city networks. This scheme results in significant advantages, including the subscriber is billed, most appropriately, only for the specific services that are used (that is, content-delivery-based billing). In contrast, earlier schemes created billing anomalies due to multiple management planes and lack of centralized computing of billing the end users. Second, the provisioning time required for networks with a nonunified management schemes can be very high. As Figure 9-2 shows, the provisioning time decreases with ...