User Intelligent Networks are essential to offering value-added services to both residential and business customers. They will help service providers maximize revenue per customer by making possible higher SLAs, differentiated services and improved resource utilization.

Yet to deploy a network that is user-aware and services-oriented, network equipment must be designed with key functionality required to build a User Intelligent Network in mind:

• High reliability, on the order of five-nines (99.999%)
• High scalability, such as support for more than 13,000 DS1s in a single seven-foot rack
• High flexibility, to work with various encapsulation mechanisms, different protocols, and different services
• Subscriber management ability to identify and authenticate a user, offer services, and bill the customer
• A service insertion point, to allow the users to sign-up and select desired services, and to furnish an attractive platform for which application vendors can develop applications.

As a leader in the Broadband Remote Access Server market segment, and with key assets such as a broad and diverse customer base, leading engineering team and vast market knowledge, Redback is uniquely positioned to lead the industry in building User Intelligent Networks.