tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39885914678620077252026-04-05T03:17:26.998-04:00Broadband Traffic ManagementCovering the latest business aspects, service plans and technologies for broadband traffic management.Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.comBlogger3611125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-79120022947989807612015-12-31T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-31T03:34:06.883-05:00That's All, Folks!
Almost 6 years ago, shortly after leaving Allot Communications, I started this blog focusing on broadband traffic management.
At that time, the leading technologies in this space were Deep Packet Inspection and Policy Management. During the years, several other technologies and solutions took larger part in this domain - such as signalling control, video optimization, caching Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com327tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-86015174047487284242015-12-30T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-30T03:30:04.314-05:00AT&T Purchased Carrier IQ
Brian Santo reports to Light Reading that "AT&T has purchased the rights to Carrier IQ's network diagnostics software. Carrier IQ apparently no longer exists as a separate entity .. AT&T said, "We've acquired the rights to Carrier IQ's software, and some CIQ employees moved to AT&T. We use CIQ software solely to improve the customer's network and wireless service experience. This is Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com316tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-53343890505349756232015-12-29T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-29T03:30:04.840-05:00Zuckerberg: "What reason is there for denying people free access to vital services?"
Facebook hosting Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, Sep. 2015
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, continues to defend its Free Basics service, which became the symbol of India's Net Neutrality debate (see "[India]: TRAI Stops Free Facebook" - here).
In an article to The Times of India, Mr. Zuckerbrge summarizes his position in one sentence "To connect a billion people, Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-77185403166306975952015-12-28T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-28T03:30:01.524-05:00Astellia Optimizes Bouygues Telecom's Radio Network
Astellia announced recently that it "..affirmed today its position as preferred vendor for network optimization by performing successful, in-depth radio optimization campaigns for Bouygues Telecom, France. Astellia’s monitoring solution is already deployed on Bouygues Telecom’s 2G, 3G and 4G networks and analyzes network performance from RAN to Core.
Astellia now further Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com80tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-51626731374698793902015-12-27T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-27T03:30:05.058-05:00Ooredoo Qatar Launches CAT 9 w/Speeds of up to 375 Mbps
Ooredoo Qatar and Nokia Networks announced the ".. launch of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) three-band carrier aggregation technology on the Ooredoo Supernet. Nokia technology enables the operator to provide higher data speeds of up to 375 Mbps to its customers.
The higher speeds are already available in several high-traffic areas of Doha .. With this new technology, people usingAzi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com143tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-47711157337109794132015-12-26T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-26T03:30:15.570-05:00[Strategy Analytics]: How Operators Could Succeed in Content Distribution?
A new report by Nitesh Patel [pictured], Director, Wireless Media Strategies, Strategy Analytics identifies "strong ambition and alignment with operator assets, as two fundamental requirements for operators to successfully define their position in the evolving digital content distribution landscape. Additionally, evidence from successful operator initiatives, particularly those from Japan Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-90935012473481930432015-12-25T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-25T03:30:12.408-05:00[India]: TRAI Stops Free Facebook
Another step in India's Net Neutrality regulation process (see "India Planned Net Neutrality Laws" - here).
Even before its public consultation over ‘Differential Pricing for Data Services’ [here] the telecom regulator, TRAI, has taken an action on the partnership between Reliance Communications and Facebook.
[Related post - "FB CEO: We Support Net Neutrality Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-78226679629928669842015-12-24T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-24T03:30:12.177-05:00YouTube vs. T-Mobile: Do Customers Prefer Price over Quality?
John D. McKinnon and Thomas Gryta report to the Wall Street Journal that "YouTube said T-Mobile US Inc. is interfering with its video traffic, raising a new issue as federal regulators examine the wireless carrier’s streaming-video strategy.
T-Mobile recently began offering a program [Bingeon] that delivers video at lower quality in exchange for waiving related data fees. YouTube and its Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-39336466081082309292015-12-23T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-23T04:16:28.317-05:00Analysys Mason: The Wi-Fi Calling Services Opportunity
A new report by Stephen Sale, Practice Head, Consumer services, Analysys Mason finds that "Wi-Fi calling lowers the barriers to entry to mobile services, but it also provides more-established operators with a much-needed stimulus to evolve their service offerings. Wi-Fi calling, particularly in its native implementations (that is, adding the capability to native diallers on handsets), brings theAzi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-21553174210086971312015-12-22T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-22T04:08:14.593-05:00[Study]: Most Mobile Travel Sites are too Slow!
A new study by Radware finds that "76% of the industry’s top 100 sites are slow to load, paralyzed by third-party scripts and trackers, and image-heavy. In fact, the average page took 6.7 seconds to load on the iPhone 6, slower than the 4 second ideal time tolerated by shoppers.
.. By the end of 2015, mobile-booked travel is expected to reach $52.08 billion. with this level Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-2877969370512602012015-12-21T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-21T03:30:18.666-05:00India - 600,000 Comments so far on Differential Pricing Regulation
BGR reports that India's "Telecom regulator TRAI has received around six lakh [i.e. 600,0000] comments on its consultation paper over ‘Differential Pricing for Data Services’ [here]— one of the important issues under net neutrality principles.
“Till Thursday, Trai received about 540,000 comments. These comments have suddenly come and mostly around Facebook’s Free Basics service [see "FB Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-28404710776635571602015-12-20T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-20T03:30:15.658-05:00Comcast: Our Usage Meter is 94.6% Accurate
While Comcast expands its usage based billing (here), questions are raised if its metering system is accurate. One of Comcast's subscribers describes in a YouTube post his exchange with Comcast customer service over exceptionally high data consumption charges by Comcast.
"It all started about three months ago, September 2015, when I got a call out of the blue. It was Comcast informing me I wasAzi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-26678946480153831772015-12-19T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-19T03:30:00.154-05:00Xura Launches a Signaling Security Solution
Xura (Comverse/Acision) announced the ".. availability of its Signaling Fraud Management System, built to protect mobile operators’ signaling networks from sophisticated exploits and security threats .. With a tightly integrated firewall and analytical module, Xura’s Signaling Fraud Management System provides mobile operators with advanced, real-time detection of malicious traffic alongside Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-10509046203540974492015-12-18T03:30:00.001-05:002015-12-18T03:30:04.863-05:00[GSA]: 150 MNOs Have HD Voice Service GSA updated its MNO stats:"150 mobile operators in 87 countries have launched HD voice service enabled by W-AMR technology:
128 deployments are on 3G/HSPA networks
17 deployments are on 2G/GSM networks
40 deployments are on LTE networks (VoLTE)"
See "150 mobile operators launched HD voice service in 87 countries; including 40 VoLTE deployments" - here.
Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-59984236553725542272015-12-17T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-17T03:30:10.132-05:00Bhutan Telecom to Use Alepo's Wi-Fi Offload and Hotspot Monetization Solution
Alepo announced a "..new partnership with Bhutan Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Bhutan, to launch an expansive Wi-Fi Offload and Hotspot Monetization Solution for the Bhutanese market.
With Alepo’s Wi-Fi monetization solution Bhutan Telecom will be able to fully monetize its Wi-Fi hotspot networks by offering attractive Wi-Fi plans and promotions to its subscribers. Bhutan Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-12412251373047677332015-12-16T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-16T03:30:03.827-05:00CellMining Raises $5M to Further Develop SON
Another Israeli startup in the fast growing SON space (see "SON Market to Reach $4B (2017)" - here) raises funds (see "Cellwize Secures $24.5M to Boost its SON Solutions" - here) following the success of Intucell ("Cisco to Acquire SON Vendor Intucell; $475M" - here)
CellMining announced that it has" successfully closed a Series A funding round with a total value of $5 Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-76020028742137736112015-12-15T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-15T03:30:25.053-05:00[Analysys Mason]: QoE is at the Center of Turning the Growth of OTT Video
A new report by Gareth Williams, Manager, Custom Research, and Martin Scott, Principal Analyst, Analysys Mason, finds that "Communications service providers (CSPs) have multiple options for turning the growth of over-the-top (OTT) video consumption to their advantage. Quality of Experience (QoE) lies at the centre of achieving excellence in the key categories of approach that we identify in Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-69477308430774494112015-12-14T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-14T03:30:01.154-05:00BT to Offer Riverbed as Service to Accelerate Cloud Applications
BT announced that "..as part of its Cloud of Clouds vision it will deploy virtual Riverbed SteelHead application acceleration technology in the core of its global network, providing superior application performance for customers accessing BT’s own cloud services as well as other leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings.
It is the first time Riverbed technology has been deployed Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-44784335711971068992015-12-13T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-13T03:30:01.775-05:00[ABI]: VIdeo QoE (CDN, Monitoring and Analytics) Market to Reach $477M by 2020
A new study by Eric Abbruzzese, Research Analyst, and Sam Rosen [pictured], VP of Consumer, ABI Research finds that "Content Delivery Network (CDN) Balancing and OTT Monitoring, as well as Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) technologies used to measure video services are growing, with associated revenues estimated to reach US$477 million Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-55403203220220558262015-12-12T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-12T03:30:00.448-05:00Netflix: The Challenges of Preparing Video for Best QoE
Anne Aaron [pictured], Manager, Video Algorithms, and David Ronca, Director, Encoding Technology, explain in a post to Netflix Techblog how Netflix prepares its video content and "encode them to the best video streams possible for a given member’s viewing device and bandwidth capabilities" which turns out to be a bigger challenge than what most people think.
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Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-3758146084544367642015-12-11T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-11T03:30:00.849-05:00[Exact Ventures]: Huawei Became the Largest PCRF Vendor
A new report by Exact Ventures finds that:
The Policy Server/PCRF market [in 3Q15] grew 37 percent compared to 3Q14, to $202 million
We expect that market growth grow by greater than 20 percent for both 2015 and 2016 and that the market will approach $1 billion for 2016
Many operators are actively deploying VoLTE, and in some cases with video, prioritizing that traffic above all else Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-55909450901288321792015-12-10T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-10T03:30:01.159-05:00Verizon to Test Sponsored Data (w/Allot?);"The capabilities we've built allow us to break down any byte"
Ina Fried, Senior Editor Mobile, reports to Re/code that "Verizon plans in the next few days to start testing so-called sponsored data, the equivalent of toll-free calling for the Internet age .. Verizon is working with just a few partners in the testing phase, but said next year this feature will be available to all comers at an affordable rate"
Marni Walden [pictured], Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-64072309217413723152015-12-09T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-09T03:30:04.461-05:00SwissCom Deploys Allot to Optimize its Cloud Services; Integrated by Nokia
Allot Communications announced together with Nokia Networks, that "Swisscom is deploying Allot Cloud Access Optimization. The solution is designed to assure application Quality of Service (QoS) and improve user productivity by overcoming the performance degradation challenges associated with cloud data centers and application delivery.
Swisscom worked with Nokia Networks to integrate the AllotAzi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-52321220538999292822015-12-08T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-08T03:30:02.472-05:00Sandvine: Streaming Video is 70% (Netflix 37%) of NA Fixed Traffic; BitTorrent is 4.4%
A new study by Sandvine focusing on Africa, the Middle East, and North America (based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s customers), finds that:
"Real-Time Entertainment (streaming video and audio) traffic now accounts for over 70% of North American downstream traffic in the peak evening hours on fixed access networks. Five years ago it accounted for less than 35%
Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988591467862007725.post-87204826592006666642015-12-07T03:30:00.000-05:002015-12-07T03:30:00.740-05:00Nokia: EE Demonstrated MEC w/Edge Video Orchestration
A post to Nokia's Blog by Dirk Lindemeier [pictured], head of Liquid Applications, describes the latest development in the Mobile Edge Computing (MEC - see "Mobile Edge Computing Group Formed" - here):
"At the recent Connected Stadium Summit, held at Wembley Stadium, UK operator EE demonstrated the power of Mobile Edge Computing.
An application called Edge Video Orchestration (EVO) Azi Ronenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337590161091366152noreply@blogger.com3