QoE and Shaper that helps offer a great customer experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Preseem for 3 main use cases. First is QoE, Quality of Experience, which allows us to see our overall network performance as well as individual Access Points. This helps show us if an AP is providing a good experience or if there's issues causing poor speeds and latency. After we are able to fix the problem, we use Preseem to verify improvements in speed/latency.
Second, we use Preseem for rate plan shaping using FQ_CODEL, which helps rate limit the customer speeds to the plan they're paying for while maintaining low latency. Instead of a sluggish experience while they max out their speeds, all applications still feel quick and without issues with VOIP or gaming.
Third, we have Preseem send usage data back to Azotel, our billing system, so we can monitor for abusive usage and handle data thresholds to provide fair usage to all customers.
Pros
- Excellent web interface that shows all the relevant performance data
- Great customer service
- Fair pricing
- Great rate plan shaping to maintain low latency
- API integration with our billing systems and many others
Cons
- Better help guides to train users like our office staff
- Lack of DPI to classify traffic for customer education
Most Important Features
- QoE Data in the web portal
- Rate plan shaping using FQ_CoDel
- API integration with our billing system
Return on Investment
- Fewer support calls as a result of better rate plan shaping
- Better visibility into issues when customers do report a problem
- Verification of fixes we make to confirm we made things better
Other Software Used
Azotel SIMPLer







