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Recent Survey Confirms Mobile Experience Still Missing in Emerging Singapore Market

By Ranga Thittai, Senior Product Manager, InfoVista Recently, Telecom Asia reported on a survey of the mobile broadband experience struggles of Singapore consumers. Here are several eye-opening statistics pointed out in the article: Operators potentially faced a churn rate of 31% 61% of consumers reported experiencing QoS issues such as slow speeds 83% of consumers [...]

Indispensable Considerations for Ethernet Mobile Backhaul

By Ranga Thittai Senior Product Manager InfoVista As mobile data and content traffic volumes continue to grow exponentially, the revenue that telecom operators can derive from providing these mobile data services will not. This reality has led mobile operators and wholesale network infrastructure providers to look toward driving down “per-bit” costs for transporting data traffic. [...]

Holistic Application Performance Management—a Must in Ensuring Mobile Quality of Experience

By Ranga Thittai Senior Product Manager InfoVista A key component in the success of mobile service providers is application performance management, which includes the ability to view an application and its response time—whether it’s in the form of streaming and real-time data services, such as mobile TV, push-to-talk, mobile-to-mobile games, or the critical enterprise applications [...]

Realizing the Benefits of Offering Mobile Data Services

By Ranga Thittai, Senior Product Manager, InfoVista Providing data services can be a bit of a double-edged sword for mobile service providers. On the one hand, data services represent the fastest growing revenue stream for service providers, accounting for up to 50 percent of growth compared with the fairly flat growth from voice services. But [...]

Winning the Trust of Mobile Enterprise Customers

Ranga Thittai, Product Manager, InfoVista Private Access Point Name (APN) connections enable mobile operators to offer private and secure mobile access to enterprises that typically seek to automate their mobile work force. For mobile service providers, this usually implies configuring specific addressing and routing schemes on top of their existing mobile data network. But for [...]

Realizing the True Benefits of Ethernet Mobile Backhaul

By Ranga Thittai, Product Manager, InfoVista The need to keep pushing profits as mobile data traffic explodes and an impending move toward LTE may quite clearly signal the need to roll out an Ethernet backhaul. But are you well prepared to realize the true benefits of Carrier Ethernet as a cost effective transport medium? As [...]