A stealth DC-based broadband technology provider, Next Generation Broadband (NGB), has landed a big fish U.S. customer, cable operator Cox Communications, for its automated subscriber activation system, marking the innovative company’s emergence as an important software provider in the U.S. broadband sector.
Cox has tapped NGB for its automated subscriber activation system, called AutoInstall III, which allows a customer to buy a modem at retail, plug it in and get activated within ten minutes, with no operator or technical intervention needed, a leap above today’s method of self-install kits that require a lot of manual set-up steps. NGB’s system is network-based and requires no client software and integrates with the operator’s billing and middleware systems.
But the most intriguing part about NGB is its future orientation — the company has developed a system that allows customers to buy bandwidth-on-demand or to dynamically upgrade to new tiers of broadband service. This capability enables the short-term bursts of bandwidth for content-rich applications, such as movies-on-demand or large file-sharing.
NGB was founded in 2001 by a group of former RoadRunner executives and has raised funds from Pilot House Ventures and Liberty Media. Although NGB has working with cable operators overseas, in the UK and Australia, the Cox deals marks its American debut.
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