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

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

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

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