Astral Assure
Carrier Wi-Fi & IoT Service Assurance and Analytics
Service Providers wishing to operate profitable managed Wi-Fi services in homes, businesses, public hotspots and municipalities face the growing threat of RF interference from all the Wi-Fi networks around them, small cells and LTE-U variants, all of which are outside of their control.
As the whole-home Wi-Fi movement gains momentum, and as Mobile Network Operators lean on Wi-Fi to augment the licensed spectrum, competition for clear channels is intensifying. Interference avoidance is already problematic in many high-density urban areas.
Unstable Wi-Fi performance due to RF contention from neighboring networks, puts Service Provider Wi-Fi monetization plans at risk, and could cause truck rolls, escalating support costs and subscriber churn. Today’s Carrier Wi-Fi networks have little to no visibility of the RF conditions their devices must operate in, and no holistic way to mitigate interference.
Astral Assure solves this problem by automatically optimizing the user experience whenever it detects detrimental changes in the RF environment, and as user demands change. APs in close proximity are treated holistically as a group, enabling coordinated channel selection as well as band-steering, client load balancing and bandwidth controls. This ensures optimal client performance and stable connections in the midst of ever-changing RF and traffic conditions, all while providing deep visualization of system performance to the network operator.
Astral Assure Datasheet
Astral Assure is a licensable platform which can be integrated into any existing Carrier Wi-Fi infrastructure comprising access points, Wi-Fi enabled DSL and Cable modems, residential gateways, STBs, small cells etc.
Key Differentiators
Automatically resolves RF interference issues on all affected Wi-Fi radios
Automatically resolves RF interference issues on all affected Wi-Fi radios
Automatically resolves RF interference issues on all affected Wi-Fi radios
Automatically resolves RF interference issues on all affected Wi-Fi radios
Automatically resolves RF interference issues on all affected Wi-Fi radios
Automatically resolves RF interference issues on all affected Wi-Fi radios
The solution has three components which may be licensed together or individually to meet unique operator requirements. It is understood that service providers have implemented Wi-Fi in a variety of ways and need complete flexibility in how they manage it. The architecture provides that flexibility along with carrier-grade scalability and support for literally any Wi-Fi enabled platform.
AP / CPE Device Agent
Collects detailed radio data from an AP or Wi-Fi enabled CPE and neighboring APs as well as client performance statistics, and passes that data upstream for analysis. It also applies service profile changes pushed down to the device.
Cloud Infrastructure
Aggregates data from multiple APs and Wi-Fi enabled CPEs organized into radio groups. It communicates with upstream Analytics Engines, and passes back configuration changes to the downstream devices.
Analytics Engine
Aggregates network-wide radio and client data in the Service Provider’s cloud, stores history and runs algorithms to compute optimized configurations, based on triggered events.
Dynamic Channel Change Demo
Please watch this simplified demonstration of the Astral Assure resolving interference caused by a neighboring network.
Now imagine the solution watching over millions of Wi-Fi radios across your entire Wi-Fi network, automatically maintaining peak performance, regardless the uncontrolled environmental changes occurring all around it.
Get a live demo of Wi-Fi service assurance.
Best and worst radios across multiple nodes.
Interference and channel quality for one AP.
Enabling dynamic Wi-Fi service assurance on your network will dramatically reduce support, and give your subscribers a more reliable experience. If you’re not 100% satisfied with your Wi-Fi deployment and the associated costs of supporting it, please contact us. We know we can make it better.