Comments on: Tight squeeze http://www.telecoms.com/18588/tight-squeeze/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tight-squeeze telecoms.com is the leading provider of global news, comment and analysis for the telecommunications industry Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: Luke Anderson http://www.telecoms.com/18588/tight-squeeze/comment-page-1/#comment-8398 Luke Anderson Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:44:00 +0000 http://www.telecoms.com/?p=18588#comment-8398 Providing a network offload and throttling are only a couple of solutions available to the operators. 4G or LTE is expected to the silver bullet that fixes the exaflood era but this will only address the efficiency of the network by providing the ability to send more bits down the network - but this does not address the utilisation of the network. Traffic management and optimisation techniques are required at the operators sites to reduce the megabytes traversing both the RAN and backhaul network. Couple with tiered policies the heavy users (or users exceeding the fair use) can be be managed more effectively than just throttling. Providing a network offload and throttling are only a couple of solutions available to the operators.

4G or LTE is expected to the silver bullet that fixes the exaflood era but this will only address the efficiency of the network by providing the ability to send more bits down the network – but this does not address the utilisation of the network.

Traffic management and optimisation techniques are required at the operators sites to reduce the megabytes traversing both the RAN and backhaul network.

Couple with tiered policies the heavy users (or users exceeding the fair use) can be be managed more effectively than just throttling.

]]> By: Chris Horton http://www.telecoms.com/18588/tight-squeeze/comment-page-1/#comment-8389 Chris Horton Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:42:15 +0000 http://www.telecoms.com/?p=18588#comment-8389 "the 3G auctions began a decade ago amid a cycle of hype that, ten years on, looks like a kind of mass hysteria,..." ... or a mass complacency that the money would keep rolling in, that the fat gross margins would last forever. The fact is that the scarce resource they are mining is the radio spectrum, which can sell as calls and texts to a few thousand subscribers around each cell site. Since that spectrum supports only a few hundred iPhones, or a dozen dongles, it should come as no surprise that it's hard to profit from mobile data. Glancing at the related content, it seems that Swedish vendor Ericsson forecasts an annual doubling of data traffic. Not perhaps such good news for their customers? “the 3G auctions began a decade ago amid a cycle of hype that, ten years on, looks like a kind of mass hysteria,…” … or a mass complacency that the money would keep rolling in, that the fat gross margins would last forever.

The fact is that the scarce resource they are mining is the radio spectrum, which can sell as calls and texts to a few thousand subscribers around each cell site. Since that spectrum supports only a few hundred iPhones, or a dozen dongles, it should come as no surprise that it’s hard to profit from mobile data.

Glancing at the related content, it seems that Swedish vendor Ericsson forecasts an annual doubling of data traffic. Not perhaps such good news for their customers?

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