SeaChange’s Universal Resource Manager (URM) is a dynamic Resource and Admission Control (dRAC) system for large scale single and multi-application deployments. It provides per session and per subscriber QoS guarantees across broadband access, aggregation and edge networks – while allowing efficient resource utilization.

The URM logically resides between the transport network layer and applications. From its control plane position it controls the use of network resources on behalf of applications to provide QoS guarantees for delivery of video, content and data to subscriber devices.

Key benefits of the URM include:

• Topology awareness combined with path sensitive admission control to maximize resource utilization while guaranteeing QoS for each session admitted to the network
• Dynamic subscriber attachment awareness to automate subscriber provisioning
• Single point of contact for applications combined with topology hiding to simplify and speed service deployment
• Scalability to grow with your service both as subscriber volumes increase, and as more content services are deployed
• Generic topology and resource policy modeling to support multiple network technologies, with pre-built templates supporting most common architectures