In our previous blogs we have discussed the need for Service Providers to offer more enhanced end-user services and the unique advantages in using the home router as a hardware platform for their deployment. In this blog, we will have a closer look at how this may be done today and what types of challenges it raises.

Broadband Service providers are continually looking for ways to become more relevant to their end-users. This is driving them to extend their reach into the cloud-based services market, which, as highlighted in the previous blog, is estimated to be over $221B for this year and it is only growing.
 

These days most of the households have a broadband connection either using Cable, DSL, Wireless or Fiber. Typical service offerings in the Western world are currently between the 50 and 100 Mbps and with max service tiers around the 1 Gbps. According to a report done for the European Commission by IHS and PointTopic…