A conversation on customer experience with John Reister, VP of marketing and product management, Vasona Networks
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Data traffic is typically very spiky. Even during congestion periods, wireless network transmission alternates between spikes and valleys, limiting the efficient utilization of the available resources. We talked to John Reister, VP of marketing and product management at Vasona Networks, about how mobile operators can take control of the spikiness and manage traffic to optimize RAN utilization.
Reister pointed out how the uneven traffic distribution in time affects the subscriber quality of experience: “You generally don’t have this continuous peak hour where the network is 100% slammed, utilized through that entire time. You get these spikes that go up, and during those spikes the packets back-up in the RAN and the queues fill up. Packets get dropped, and that is where the latency goes up and the experience really deteriorates.”
Building more capacity is an expensive way to address this problem, as Reister pointed out: “It is a shame to have to spend all that money to build more capacity on a network when your utilization is really only 15% or 20% or 25%.”
Read our conversation to see how Vasona’s solution allows mobile operators to manage traffic flows from the network edge to deliver a higher QoE.
This conversation is included in the Senza Fili report “The smart RAN: trends in the optimization of spectrum and network resource utilization.” If you would like to receive a complimentary copy of the report, please click here. We have also discussed this topic at length in our recent RAN Optimization webinar
