Operators’ Digital Home challenges

The Digital Home concept has become a reality, with an average of 5 peripherals connected – Internet, telephone, video surveillance, home automation and even digital photography and storage now revolve around the CPE. Home gateways, regardless of the technologies used (Optical fibre, Femtocell, Cable, DSL, etc.) are at the heart of the Value Added Services offered by operators.

Adding new services often requires an increase in CAPEX, due to the renewal and updating of the CPE installed base – cost of shipping and returning equipment, cost of software updates, additional development costs for new features. Also, capital tied up in inventory of obsolete gateways can delay or prevent the launch of new services.

Why should you separate the hardware and the software platforms in your call to tender?

Bewan LP is based on a unified software that works on any home gateway hardware platform to control, manage and upgrade the entire Digital Home Network and Services. Dedicated to operators, manufacturers and integrators, it reduces costs of gateways due to hardware exchangeability. It also optimizes OPEX as one unique software runs, controls and manages the entire Home network as well as a comprehensive range of certifi ed, interoperable and remotely manageable accessories. Operators can introduce new ready-to-use Value Added Services with shorter time to market and reduced support costs.

Separating the software platform from the hardware can offer certain advantages:
• Technological independence from the Access device, the chipset and the ODM
• Over 20% reduction in CAPEX

The Bewan Licensing option has allowed several major international operators to roll out quadruple play services (fixed/mobile telecommunications, Internet, IPTV, remote file-sharing) across the entire range of equipment installed, by applying the Bewan software to different hardware platforms (DSL components such as Infineon, Centillium/ Ikanos Group, etc) and products.


What are the advantages of this operation?
- Upgradeability of services
- Guaranteed VoIP service quality (totally transparent to the end user)
- Homogeneity of the services across the hardware installed base
- No inventory
- No returns or exchanges of hardware platforms
- Fast roll-out
- Optimized CAPEX
- Increased ARPU and reduced churn.