Scaling content communicated over a network

A method, comprising:

• facilitating, by a system comprising a processor, analysis of network traffic through a gateway device associated with a provisioned service of a communications network;
• facilitating, by the system, determination of a fault condition in connection with a degradation of the provisioned service;
• facilitating, by the system, issuance of an alarm describing the fault condition;
• facilitating, by the system, mitigation of the fault condition in response to the alarm by applying a scaling factor for transforming a presentation resolution associated with the content transitioning the gateway device, wherein the presentation resolution relates to a bit rate associated with an encoding format for the content transitioning the gateway device.

A gateway device, comprising:

• a memory to store instructions;
• and
• a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising:
• monitoring network traffic traversing the gateway device using a transceiver that propagates data associated with a provisioned service of a communications network;
• receiving an alarm in response to detection of a fault condition associated with a degradation of a service associated with the gateway device;
• and
• reducing a resolution associated with content traversing the gateway device by a scaling factor determined based upon information represented by the alarm, wherein the resolution relates to a bit rate associated with an encoding format for the content communicated through the gateway device.