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Nokia's Software Cuts Signaling by 80%



 
Nokia Networks announced that it has "..conducted the first live network trial of a software feature that improves smartphone performance on 3G networks. Nokia High Speed Cell FACH* cuts smartphone-generated network signaling by up to 80%, boosts response time by up to 65% and achieves up to 20% faster browsing. Up to 40% power savings, contributing to longer smartphone battery life for

[Research]: VoLTE is Better than OTT VoIP



Mobile networks vendors continue to claim that their built-in VoIP (VoLTE) beats OTT's VoIP in all aspects - efficiency,performance and quality.

We saw internal research from Nokia - see "NSN: VoLTE Beats OTT VoIP 4:0 !" - here and "Nokia: VoLTE is Doing Better than OTT's VoIP Under Load" - here.




Alcatel-Lucent joins the trend and announces "the results of an independent research study [

[ALU]: "signalasis" Undermining Customer Experience and Operator’s Reputation




An article by Josee Loudiadis [pictured], Director of Network Intelligence, Alcatel-Lucent, covers the "signaling spikes that can overwhelm available signaling capacity, undermining the customer experience and the operator’s reputation with it" and analyzes the signaling behavior of several common applications.

"There are three kinds of “signalasis”: microbursts that can be measured in

ALU Identifies the Chatty Mobile Apps


A new report by Alcatel-Lucent ",, examines the impact of leading mobile applications on service provider networks and on consumers’ data plan and device battery life .. The rankings in this report are derived from mobile network analytics provided by the Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Network Guardian [see "Softbank [Japan] Uses ALU for Better QoE" - here]. All measurements are based on actual app

NSN: VoLTE Beats OTT VoIP 4:0 !


Gerald Reddig [pictured], Nokia Solutions and Networks, explains in company's blog why VoLTE is good for MNOs - technically.



"NSN Smart Labs recently tested both client groups, OTT VoIP and VoLTE" and found that in all 4 measured KPIs VoLTE is better:

VoLTE clients consumed approximately 40% less than OTT VoIP clients. 

OTT VoIP clients generated up to 10x more data connections in the

NSN: How can MNOs Deal w/OTT Resource Consumption and Lost Revenues?


A post by Andrew Burell [pictured], Nokia Solutions and Networks, to the company blog says that "OTT is certainly not a lost cause to MNOs".

" .. [MNOs] see OTT applications such as Skype, WhatsApp and NetFlix piggy-backing on their network investments, clogging up resources and stealing their revenues. The figures themselves are certainly frightening. Every day 2,371 new applications are