Entries for December 2011
monica.paolini posted on December 20, 2011 01:14
In a recent report, I argued that data caps are not effective as a traffic management tool as they may encourage peak traffic, and thus increase congestion, instead of containing it. Fairly enough, one question that I often get is what works then, if data caps don't. Mobile operators have different tools--Wi-Fi and small-cell offload, policy, content optimization, QoS-based tiering to name a few--and they will have to employ many of them to manage traffic effectively.
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RAN,
Femto cells,
Wi-Fi offload,
Data traffic
monica.paolini posted on December 16, 2011 18:02
A paper I wrote on the future of Wi-Fi in the enterprise just came out on GigaOM Pro. It was fun to write as it gave me the opportunity to think not only about the future of Wi-Fi, but also about its past. It is really impressive how flexible Wi-Fi as a technology has been to adapt to an increasingly diverse set of requirements in the market.
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