Wataniya, Kuwait’s Red Carpet Co., has selected Openet for its Fair Usage solution through the deployment of Openet’s FusionWorks Convergent Charging and Policy Manager products.
Openet says this integrated solution approach will ensure profitability from Wataniya’s data services by enforcing limits on subscriber usage volume, while allowing subscribers to purchase additional volume upon reaching limits. Wataniya also will deploy products to correlate and track data across all networks, implementing policies to monetize services and content.
With the growing consumption of rich, bandwidth-heavy content and services and the increase in peer-to-peer traffic, operators across the Middle East are struggling to control network capacity while continuing to ensure that all subscribers are provided the network performance they pay for. By deploying Openet’s Fair Usage solution on top of its Policy Manager and Convergent Charging products, Wataniya is taking the first step to ensure that excessive bandwidth usage generates incremental revenue.
Openet’s solutions will be deployed alongside Wataniya’s deep packet inspection (DPI) solution, which already exists on the provider’s network. The combined deployment provides optimal speed and flexibility of services for Wataniya’s expected 1.7 million subscribers, according to the companies.
