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Chapter 1 Cisco Service Control Overview
SCE Platform Description
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Robust and flexible back-office integration—The ability to integrate with existing third-party
systems at the service provider, including provisioning systems, subscriber repositories, billing
systems, and OSS systems. The SCE provides a set of open and well-documented APIs that allows
a quick integration process.
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Scalable high-performance service engines—The ability to perform all of these operations at wire
speed.
SCE Platform Description
The SCE family of programmable network devices performs application-layer stateful-flow inspection
of IP traffic, and controls the traffic based on configurable rules. The SCE platform is a network device
that uses ASIC components and reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors to exceed beyond
packet counting and expand into the contents of network traffic. Providing programmable, stateful
inspection of bidirectional traffic flows, and mapping these flows with user ownership, SCE platforms
provide real-time classification of network use. The classification provides the basis of the SCE platform
advanced traffic-control and bandwidth-policing functionality. Where most bandwidth control
functionality ends, the SCE platform provides further control and shaping options, including:
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Layer 7 stateful wire-speed packet inspection and classification
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Robust support for more than 600 protocols and applications, including:
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General—HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Telnet, Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol
(IMAP), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), and others
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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing—FastTrack-KazaA, Gnutella, BitTorrent, Winny, Hotline,
eDonkey, DirectConnect, Piolet, and others
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P2P VoIP—Skype, Skinny, DingoTel, and others
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Streaming and Multimedia—Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP), HTTP streaming, Real Time Protocol (RTP) and Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP), and
others
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Programmable system core for flexible reporting and bandwidth control
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Transparent network and BSS and OSS integration into existing networks
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Subscriber awareness that relates traffic and usage to specific customers
illustrates a common deployment of an SCE platform in a network.