CheetahXD™

Broadband Assurance Platform

The CheetahXD Broadband Service Assurance platform is designed to manage the HFC network (from headend to CPE) by proactively monitoring the physical network elements that provide revenue-generating IP services (such as High Speed Data and VoIP), to pinpoint network degradation proactively, resulting in reduced trouble tickets and truck rolls.

The Cheetah software framework provides cross domain (XD) fault and performance tools for DOCSIS-based network management, while preserving existing customer investments by integrating multi-vendor DOCSIS and HMS transponders, as well as legacy Tollgrade/Cheetah transponders. CheetahXD's optional Battery Analyst application allows operators to remotely test the performance of standby power supplies to ensure operational capacity in the event of commercial power outages.

CheetahXD leverages Tollgrade’s newest DOCSIS-based transponders featuring VoIP firmware management capability for Tollgrade transponders. Users access web-based fault and performance views to navigate across the various physical and service domains (HSD, HFC, etc.) from a single point in the network, visually correlating the physical network impairments to the performance information of IP revenue-generating services and vice versa.

CheetahXD's open architecture provides consolidated fault views, featuring customizable smart launch menus to drill down into EMS-specific functions. CheetahXD's northbound OSS and developer modeling toolkits uniquely enable operators to extend the functionality of CheetahXD as their operational practices require.