Smart Offload with Wi-Fi and Femtocells
The smartphone revolution is upon us, and with it comes significant opportunities, as well as challenges for mobile operators.
On the positive side, smartphones represent a significant boost to mobile data usage and revenues. Thanks to smartphones, subscribers are finally able to experience the true advantages of a mobile data network. However, they are starting to put significant strain on mobile networks, with smartphone users typically consuming 50 times more network capacity than subscribers with feature phones. With some analysts estimating more than 50% of all phones sold globally by 2014 will be smartphones, this network overload problem is only expected to grow over time.
To help address this challenge, Kineto offers the industry's only combined Wi-Fi and Femtocell-based Smart Offload solution. Kineto provides operators maximum flexibility and investment protection by supporting the two most popular and effective offload technologies, Wi-Fi and Femtocells, into a single Smart Offload solution.
Kineto’s Wi-Fi-based Smart Offload solution enables operators to turn any standard Wi-Fi access point into a seamless extension of their mobile network, allowing subscribers to receive all their mobile services when connected via Wi-Fi. Kineto’s Femtocell-based Smart Offload solution enables operators to provide subscribers low-powered 3G base stations for use at home or office to provide ‘five bars’ of cellular coverage.
Highlights of Kineto's Smart Offload solutions include:
- Solves the Capacity Crunch. Kineto’s Smart Offload solutions enable operators to offload all their mobile services (voice, data, IMS,...), not just Internet traffic like YouTube, to the fixed network.
- Resolves the 3G Indoor Coverage Challenge. Kineto’s Smart Offload solutions delivers coverage where subscribers need it most -- at home and in the office.
- Addresses Mobile VoIP Threat. With Kineto’s Smart Offload solution, operators can differentiate service pricing based on location. For example, a subscriber at home may receive discounted or free calling when attached to the Smart Offload solution, discouraging the use of a competitve mobile VoIP service.
- Smart Battery Performance. Kineto’s Smart Offload solutions enable handsets to transmit at lower power when attached to a Wi-Fi or femtocell access point, and thereby increase handsets' talk and standby times.
In another industry first, Kineto now offers Smart Offload-as-a-Service, a hosted version of our industry-leading, award winning Multi-Service Access Gateway. Kineto's Smart Offload-as-a-Service speeds a Wi-Fi or Femtocell-based offload service to market with lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and the ability to rapidly scale to meeting growing subscriber demand.
