Active Broadband Networks Marks Milestone, Collects One Trillion DOCSIS[R] IPDR Records.

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Active Broadband Networks, a leading developer of Subscriber Service and Network Management Systems based upon the emerging IPDR standards, announces that their customers have collected more than one trillion IPDR records from Cable Modem Termination Systems using the Active Resource Manager.

"Collecting a trillion records is an amazing achievement for the Active Broadband Networks team and our customers", said Adam Dunstan, President of Active Broadband Networks. "This achievement clearly shows the scalability and maturity of our platform. When you combine our fair-use management, usage management and service pre-processing for usage-based billing rating systems with our unique Open Source licensing model, Active Broadband Networks provides a flexible, compelling solution for Cable System Operators. "

Active Broadband Networks is also announcing the availability of support for DOCSIS 3.0 and Active Resource Manager Release 4.0. This new release builds upon the existing platform capabilities doubling the number of subscribers supported by a single collector effectively halving the hardware costs of deploying the platform while improving IPDR processing, storage and analysis capabilities. This new release will extended our unique reExporter technology to support DOCSIS 3.0 in addition to adding DOCSIS 3.0 IPDR information to our existing applications and capabilities.

Availability

The Active Resource Manager is available in three Editions. The Standard Edition provides IPDR capabilities using a single server, the Enhanced Edition consisting of a pair of collection systems that operate as a redundant cluster and the SystemWide Edition, which is a network of collector systems that interoperate for redundancy and scalability supporting up 100M subscriber devices. All versions of the Active Resource Manager include customized reporting capabilities, Database and WebServices API's, and the Fair Use Profiler, Quota Manager, Usage Prediction and Usage Statistics System applications. The reExporter is available with the SystemWide Edition. Release 3.2 is currently available, Release 4.0 will be available in May. An Open Source trial edition is available for download from www.a-bb.net.

About Active Broadband Networks

Active Broadband Networks is a leading provider of Open Source Subscriber Service and Broadband Network Management systems. We are the developers of the Active Resource Manager; a Subscriber Service Management and Broadband Network Management platform based upon the emerging IPDR protocol standards. The Active Resource Manager provides a subscriber-service-centric view of network resource usage that is unavailable in current network management systems. It further leverages this information to predict future demands, identify top-talkers by service class, implement per-subscriber usage quotas and measure subscriber experience. Designed to meet the needs of Broadband Service Providers, the Active Resource Manager is

available in three editions including a distributed system supporting up to 100 million subscriber devices. The Active Resource Manager is an Open Source platform. This benefits our customers by eliminating complex licensing, easing integration with other Operational Support Systems, and offering choice in on-going support and functionality development. Active Broadband Networks provides commercial support and professional services for the Active Resource Manager. For further information, visit www.a-bb.net or call 617-395-7934

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