Automated Bandwidth On-Demand Provisioning System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Network service providers face challenges in accurately estimating bandwidth requirements for users, leading to suboptimal bandwidth usage and increased costs due to the need for manual adjustments and low user engagement with self-service portals for dynamic changes.
Innovation Solution
An automated bandwidth management process that allows users to specify a segmented bandwidth schedule once, which is automatically implemented without further user intervention, using a provisioning system to update network resources and billing systems accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual bandwidth adjustment processes are used, then network service providers can control bandwidth allocation, but user engagement with self-service portals remains low and operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated bandwidth adjustment where the network monitoring system automatically detects bandwidth requirements and triggers provisioning changes without user intervention. The system self-monitors bandwidth utilization metrics, self-decides when bandwidth changes are needed based on predefined thresholds, and self-executes the provisioning updates through automated workflows, eliminating the need for users to manually log into self-service portals.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary monitoring and analysis of bandwidth utilization patterns to predict future bandwidth requirements before users need to request changes. By continuously tracking network traffic and utilization metrics in advance, the system proactively identifies when bandwidth thresholds will be exceeded and initiates provisioning adjustments before users experience performance degradation, eliminating the need for reactive user requests.
2Device complexity
If standardized bandwidth allocation is used, then network management is simplified, but bandwidth usage becomes suboptimal and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from static standardized bandwidth allocation to dynamic bandwidth management by continuously monitoring network utilization metrics and automatically adjusting bandwidth provisioning in real-time based on actual demand. The system adapts bandwidth allocation dynamically response to changing network conditions, user behavior patterns, and traffic demands, ensuring optimal bandwidth utilization while maintaining simplified management through automated decision-making algorithms.
Data Source
AI summary
A device enables automated bandwidth on demand functionality for a user, associated with a network, based on a request of the user, and receives a particular schedule for the user and the automated bandwidth on demand functionality. The device generates provisioning commands that update bandwidth requirements of the network, for the user, based on the particular schedule. The device provides the provisioning commands to network resources of the network, and the provisioning commands cause the network resources to implement the updated bandwidth requirements for the user according to the particular schedule.