This month, RCR Wireless examines the trends that are shaping content delivery on both wired and wireless networks. As consumer demand access to their content on smartphones and tablets, drive up network traffic by accessing video, and look to over-the-top players to provide their entertainment rather than traditional content providers, the ecosystem is shifting.
Content is king, and mobile content increasingly consists of data and video. The use of video over the Internet and applications accounts for about half of traffic on most networks, sometimes more — and is rapidly growing on mobile networks as consumers use their smartphones and tablets to connect to, view and listen to content.
At the core, consumers expect to be able to access their desired content – fully personalized social media such as Facebook, or YouTube videos, or access to their Netflix account – on whatever device they happen to be using, wherever they are, whenever they want. This is fundamentally changing networks and businesses, and those changes promise to increase as device proliferate and new use cases, including the connected car, begin to see wider use. Meanwhile, new technologies such as Hotspot 2.0, Multi-user MIMO for Wi-Fi and LTE broadcast are being tested and deployed to support more ubiquitous and faster mobile networks and new content delivery strategies.
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