Zeugma offers variable bandwidth on demand for consumers

One of the first applications that Zeugma enabled for Hill Country was boosting bandwidth for a Netflix Roku download, using the TV remote control and a Roku set-top box. That application was developed in a week, using software development kits from Zeugma and Roku, said Tom Meehan, vice president of product management at Zeugma.

“They were interested in this and we were able to get back to them in a week,” said Walsh. “There may be a whole myriad of services – microservices – that offer different shades of a bandwidth boost and there might be a relatively low take rate for each but you begin to add up a lot of those and build a very profitable business model.”

The SmartBoost doesn’t require extensive integration with service provider billing systems, Meehan said. Zeugma provides a session detail records and Radius accounting information to support service provider billing, and also validates the subscriber profile to set the higher amount of bandwidth for the appropriate period of time, he said.

SmartBoost runs within Zeugma’s Open Application Sandbox, which also supports other applications such as SmartVideo and SmartMeter.