In sport it is all about marginal gain, incremental improvement and constantly trying to achieve #1 (Number 1) position, winning and being the best. Occasionally there are mavericks who see the world in a different lens and change the game forever from the Fosbury Flop high jump technique to Bob Beamon’s long jump record held for 22 years. It’s good to see the world from a different point of view.

Looking at the CSP world and specifically, mobile networks there is rightly a focus on transmission speed – overcoming the physics of 5G now moving into 5.5G and 6G. With each stage bringing faster speed and greater network efficiency. Customer’s inherently buy into the advantage of speed.

Enea’s complementary view is that we need to look at, and into, the data that the network is transporting; The lateral move is to look at the bytes of data from a protocol and application perspective instead of a “one size fits all”. Everything from fixed wireless access, smartphones & tablets and IoT devices – it is the data traffic, to and from the internet, that is essential for our day-to-day life, so the data mix, in the traffic, has to be considered if you are trying to get more from the mobile network.

In respect of data and applications, the complexity and volume is increasing significantly (5G data access will consume 3-4X more than 4G simply because the data services will utilize higher speed connections with higher quality data requiring more data (bytes) to deliver the same service. Streaming is a great example with 70% of data in mobile networks streaming content (social media, clips etc.) – given a high bandwidth network streaming will occupy as much space as it can grab and pre-load caches on devices with content that may never be seen. In fact Vodafone^[1] recently stated that the preload could account for as much as 20% of mobile station traffic.

Looking at data from speed and volume perspective can enable a network to improve its competitive position – specifically for external testing – significant benefit can be achieved (up to 25%) from accelerating TCP (55%) of traffic and managing this against UDP (QUIC) to preserve user experience^[2]. As a telco you could settle for average small gains here on performance e.g. 5% or you could change the game by 15-25% in a significant move.

On the endurance front we know network rollout is not instant and that data traffic is variable – it is about consistency of experience & quality – even when the track is congested – and that’s why we can use our encrypted video manager to react to conditions, in real time, allowing more users to watch higher quality video – using superior data management of the application stream^[3]. Enea’s traffic management tools have been shown to deliver high quality video with as much as 25% data savings in bytes, optimizing the delivery of encrypted video streams, enabling 20% more available capacity in the network for streaming.

Enea has assisted multiple CSPs in achieving significant performance gains in external testing, from drive testing to crowd sourced testing using our traffic management capabilities^[4]. Delivering #1, market leading positions.

Don’t settle for second place.

[1] Vodafone Pre-Scroll https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology/vodafone-broadcom-develop-solution-reduce-impact-infinite-scroll-network-quality-consumer-behaviour

[2] Enea Insight Article TCP v UDP

[3] Enea Encrypted Video Optimization

[4] Enea Openwave Traffic Management

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Enea has traffic management deployments in 25 countries, worldwide, in 2024.