Skyline Addressable Solutions, because of their unique design, offer you more advantages than any other competing solution, resulting in the fastest ROI in the industry. The following are some of the advantages that you also can enjoy by deploying Skyline Addressable Outdoor Taps:

Eliminate illegal cable connections: significant revenues are lost because of illegal cable connections. With Skyline Addressable Outdoor Taps this is simply no longer possible. The switches and filters in the outdoor tap assure that the only services available, are paid for. At this day and age, you can rest assured that the majority of illegal cable connections will be turned into legitimate customers, increasing your revenues.

Eliminate disconnection errors: connecting and disconnecting (or installing trap filters) subscribers is a labor-intensive undertaking performed by a fleet of network technicians, leading to an overall business process very susceptible for errors. For that reason, the vast majority of HFC broadband networks have many subscribers who are hooked up to the network, but who never receive a bill for that service. With Skyline Addressable Outdoor Taps you can convert that old business process by a fully automated business process, and rely on a continuous update of your network connections.

Reduce delinquent payments: many subscribers rely on the fact that disconnection from the HFC broadband network can take quite some time, and is expensive for the operator, to delay payment of services. With Skyline Addressable Outdoor Taps, which are fully integrated with your billing system, you can instantaneously counter delayed or non-payments, hence reducing the number delinquent payers, and collect bills in shorter time spans.

Reduce truck rollouts: for every connection, disconnection or change of service, a field engineer has to roll out his truck to physically connect or disconnect the customer (or alternatively install special RF filters). Taking into account that the cost of a single truck rollout can amount for several months of subscription fees, it does not take long to realize the potential savings of Skyline Addressable Outdoor Taps. Note that with Skyline Addressable Outdoor Taps you have full control of your individual subscriber ports (e.g. TV Only, Full Service, Internet Only or No Service), so that truck rollouts can also be eliminated for customers changing their service package. The latter will become increasingly more important in the near future, when a more aggressive competition amongst providers, increases the number of changes on a single network connection.

Reduce the cost of operating in difficult service areas: truck rollouts are expensive, but they can raise exponentially when you have to deal with difficult service areas, such as closed buildings, gated communities, difficult neighborhoods, etc. Through deployment of the Skyline Addressable Outdoor Tap, these difficult service areas, generating little or no revenues, can be rendered into standard revenue generators.

Increase revenues with faster connection and disconnection: Depending on circumstances, it can take days or weeks for the network interventions to take place, preventing valuable network connections from generating revenues. With Skyline Addressable Outdoor Taps, network connections and disconnections (and all changes in filter configurations) can be done remotely, and near-instantaneously, maximizing the availability of network connections to generate revenues.

Increase your network quality: with Skyline Addressable Outdoor Taps, and its unique ability to control RF filtering on a subscriber bases, you can rest assured that customers who do not need to be connected with your return path, are instantaneously disconnected from your return path. This drastically eliminates the potential sources for ingress problems, and increases the overall quality of your services. Skyline Addressable Outdoor Taps can also easily be combined with any ingress tracking systems, so that ingress sources can be tracked down to individual subscriber ports, and allowing you to shut down offending subscriber connections before the overall service quality if affected.

Increase customer satisfaction: as network connections, or changes in configurations of RF filters for new network services, can be executed instantaneously, you can increase the level of satisfaction of your customers. This level of service for your customers will become increasingly more important as competition heats up, and customers shop around. There is no doubt that agility of the subscriber network connection status is going to be essential in the future of HFC networks, when competing with solutions.

Increase revenues with special promotional programs: When the connecting or disconnecting of subscribers is fully automated, you can introduce special promotional programs or trial subscriptions. Interested customers can be easily provided access to new services for a limited time, increasing your chances of gaining new customers.

Introduce new service packages: for special customers, or special areas (e.g. holiday houses, camping areas) you can now easily introduce new, special service packages, without having to worry about extra expenses for field interventions, and without compromising the quality of the services.

Reduce your stock of components: The Skyline addressable taps are featuring a plug-in directional coupler, which allows you to use the same generic addressable tap, and deploy it in different values and/or deploy it in different signal directions. In other words, rather than having a wide array of outdoor taps in your warehouse (different values and different signal directions), you can now keep stock of a single addressable tap platform, and a number of plug-in directional couplers. This will greatly reduce the money stored in your warehouse and in the trucks of your field personnel.

Prepare for self-provisioning of subscribers: The Skyline addressable outdoor taps provide you with full control of each subscriber network connection. Hence, it becomes feasible to consider self-provisioning for example with Internet services (i.e. new subscribers buy their own installation kit from the shop, go home and install and activate their own cable modem). This type of self-provisioning is only possible if you have full remote control of your subscriber connections, including the RF filtering on those connections. Agility of the subscriber network connections is one of the principle keys in offering competitive solutions in the service market of tomorrow.

Eliminate service interruptions: This feature guarantees that no service interruptions will occur for the downstream subscribers, while servicing taps in the network. Again, the quality and availability of your services can be increased. If your network is not yet equipped with outdoor taps with a bypass mechanism, you can now also enjoy the benefits of this feature from deploying Skyline addressable outdoor taps.

Eliminate investments in expensive peripherals: as the Skyline Addressable Outdoor Tap offers you everything you need in a compact, fully remote controllable product, you will no longer have to invest in buying, stocking, installing and troubleshooting products such as anti-theft locks, tubular RF filters (Internet Only Filters, Return Path Blocking Filters, etc.), etc.