Broadband Command Center - Platform Overview

Central Lease Service

Accelerate and simplify lawful intercept look-up processes with Central Lease Service (CLS) for Broadband Command Center.

• Compile historical and active lease data from Broadband Command Center.
• Quickly associate subscribers to devices with IP and MAC address mapping.
• Implement new services such as DNS opt-out, providing a rapid way to associate a client device to a subscriber account.
• Leverage extensible scripting engine for detection and migration of DOCSIS cable modem clones based on operator-specific business rules.

Fraud Management

Reduce fraud risk with CLS lease audit records to identify and block cloned devices.

• Automatically detect and inspect suspected MAC spoofing when devices appear across multiple DHCP servers and CMTS gateways during an overlapping time period.
• Easily review gateway and lease histories to filter out legitimate cases, such as node splits, from cloned devices.
• Improve the quality of service for paying customers by blocking illegitimate devices from accessing your network through configurable means (e.g., walled garden or blocked access).
• Export reports on potential rogue devices for simplified reporting and documentation.

Firmware Management Service

Reduce OPEX and improve QoE with automated DOCSIS firmware management.

• Easily see when firmware packages are available and which devices require these updates.
• Orchestrate bulk firmware updates with automated operations.
• Avoid service interruption with flexible scheduling options.
• Simplify the update process and enhance visibility with an intuitive user interface.

DNS Proxy Service

• Eliminate dynamic DNS updates in large domains.
• Remove synchronization errors.
• Respond to DNS requests using the DHCP server.

Central Management System

Broadband Command Center Central Management System (CMS) is a centralized software platform that manages and configures multiple BCC clusters. This alleviates the need for lengthy and error-prone manual configuration and replaces CLI-based scripting to configure BCC clusters that typically required significant scripting expertise. Now, multiple network engineering professionals can easily configure BCC without extensive testing or scripting skills. This means less manual processes, fewer errors, and faster time to configure and update DOCSIS services.

As a centralized software platform that manages and configures multiple BCC clusters, BCC Central Management System (CMS) alleviates the need for lengthy and error-prone manual configuration and replaces CLI-based scripting that typically requires significant scripting expertise. Because multiple network engineering professionals can easily configure BCC without extensive testing or scripting skills, CMS speeds up DOCSIS service configuration and updating with fewer manual processes and errors.

CMS benefits

• Lowers operational costs through configuration automation.
• Reduces human error with minimal manual processes and reduces deployment errors via Peer Review and Approval mechanism.
• Ensures faster deployment by configuring once versus configuring once per cluster.
• Offers zero-touch BCC ecosystem configuration through automated discovery of BCC services—no need to configure specific interface information for BCC services.
• Zero-touch BCC ecosystem configuration through automated discovery of BCC services—no need to configure specific interface information for BCC services.
• Improves security through delegated administration model enabling only authorized personnel to implement BCC configuration changes.
• Features web portal GUI for ease of access.