Sandvine Upgrades Bandwidth-Management Platform

Sandvine has enhanced its Fairshare system -- used by Comcast and other providers to manage congestion on broadband networks -- to blend the ability to control bandwidth consumption based on both user activity and application types. The Fairshare Traffic Management 2.0 platform, which became generally available in June, is able to manage network access using both application and subscriber-usage data. For example, for a time-sensitive application such as live video streaming, Fairshare 2.0 can be configured to ensure subscribers accessing video don't get their connections ratcheted down.