PCCW mobile has adopted Huawei’s pioneering smartphone signaling optimization solution to further enhance its network performance and improve mobile broadband experience to its customers.
The 3GPP-Release-8 (3GPP-R8)-based smartphone signaling optimization solution can significantly reduce 3GPP-R8 smartphone signaling traffic by over 25%.
Mobile broadband traffic has increased sharply over the past few years due to the increasingly popular use of smartphones. The preponderance of “heartbeat” applications (those that frequently transmit small data packets) and smartphones’ frequent changes from active to idle mode create high signaling traffic, which puts pressure on mobile networks and potentially affects capacity and quality.
An end-to-end solution is required to solve increasing traffic and the signaling storms brought upon by an increasing number of smartphones. A joint effort between Huawei and PCCW mobile during the past few months has delivered a solution that optimizes smartphone signaling behavior.
Live network statistics have shown that the solution reduces by over 25% of redundant signaling load from PCCW mobile’s 3GPP-R8 smartphone signaling process while significantly enhancing network performance and improving mobile broadband connectivity.