# Platforms Overview

# Introduction

Service Providers and Enterprise are constantly looking to optimize their operationaly efficiency and to enrich their customers experience.

zequenze solutions are being built in order to help Service Providers and Enterprises accomplish these goals by automating and simplifying their operation and management of large amount of devices (CPE, modems, routers,  WiFi AP) as well as to provide insighful analytics on their utilization and performance.

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Major tasks accomplished by zequenze platform can be summarized as:

- **Configuration and Service Management:** which encompass device's onboarding, configuration management, services management, firmware management, etc. accomplished in a secure and automated fashion minimizing errors or human-driven mistakes.
- **Analytics:** referring to a wide set of statistics and analytics gathered from the devices and afterwards exposed either graphically and/or toward external systems through  a flexible API.
- **Scripting:** based on information gathered from devices (analytics, configuration, others) zequenze platform can process (analyze, correlate, etc.) and new configurations pushed to the devices in order to automatically achieve Service Providers requirements.

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# Architecture

zequenze Platforms share the following framework architecure:
- **Machine Interfaces**: RADIUS, TR069, MQTT, Web Server, etc.
- **Application**: AAA, Captive Portal, Device Management, Service Management, Firmware Manager, among others.
- **Databases**: database for devices users/records, metrics, among others.

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Each layer can be easily scaled horizontally depending on either traffic, activity or size requirements.

Further reading:
- [What is CONTROL?](https://docs.zequenze.com/books/control/page/what-is-control)
- [Specifications](https://docs.zequenze.com/books/control/page/specifications)

# Specifications

##### zequenze Platforms Key Characteristics
- **Carrier-Grade platforms**
    - Multiprotocol and Multivendor
	    - 100% based on standard protocols and interfaces allowing interoperation with any standard-compliant platform.
	- Cloud-based architecture with horizontal scalability.
	    - Relaying on industry-leaders cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCE), zequenze platforms scales automatically when required.
	- Integrates toward Service Provider OSS/BSS systems through an API.
	    - A rich and flexible API allow smooth integration with a awide variety of platforms such as CRM, OSS, BSS, among many others.
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- **Common Solution Framework**
	- All zequenze platforms run on the same solution framework, leveraging a consistent set of characteristics and features among all of them such:
	    - Rich set of nortbound (GUI/API) and southbound (RADIUS, API, webservices, TR069, SNMP, CLI, etc.) interfaces.
        - Scalable Application Engines.
        - Integrated DB for devices/users and metrics.

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- **Easy/Flexible configuration & management through GUI/API**
	- All configuration management can be performed through an intuitive Web-based GUI and/or API for automated processes.
    - Customizable priviledges for GUI/API access based in user/organization profiles (Call Center users, NOC operators, Enegineering staff).
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- **Extensive Reports & Analytics capabilities**
	- Devices, Location/Group based reports.
	- Heatmaps.
	- Historical data on any Devices' metric.
	- Data-export facilities (CSV, API, others).
    
Further reading:
- [What is CONTROL?](https://docs.zequenze.com/books/control/page/what-is-control)
- [What is GATE?](https://docs.zequenze.com/books/gate/page/what-is-gate)