Virtualized Customer Premises Equipment (NEC vCPE) Solutions
vCPE addresses the challenges of the evolving home environment by transferring large portions of the CPE function to the cloud.
Advanced Home Environment
- Due to a raise in video consumption, Internet traffic is increasing exponentially.
- The number of connected devices is increasing with tablets and smartphones are becoming more common and the appliances are becoming more “smart”.
- At homes Offloading mobile data traffic for Wi-Fi networks that drive traffic growth.
General description of the current home environment
Issues with current Customer Premises Equipment
The difficulty of providing value-added services such as:
- Per-device offerings.
Parental control of appliances for children, appliance management for home, layer 2 monitoring device, etc. - Click to execute, bid and buy offers.
Security, vSTB, vStorage etc. - End-to-end connections and security management
Complexities in the provision of New services
- Traditional CPE devices often need to be replaced due to lack of CPU and memory capacity.
- Additional devices are often required.
- Software updates require simultaneous support for different hardware devices.
A Rise in Capital expenditures and operating expenses
- Truck runs and visits to customer sites that lead to increase in costs.
- Maintenance and updates of Software at multiple customer’s places can be complex and expensive to organize.
The vCPE Principle
The upper layer functions move from the home portals to the network and become virtual functions
Benefits
- Reduction of capital expenditure and operating expenses
- Improves agility.
- Provide personal services.
- Move to a business model based on SaaS.
- Enhance experience for customer.