Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) on Thursday announced its enhanced Liquid Applications and OTT management services.
The enhanced Liquid Applications is aimed at offering accelerated content delivery and real-time utilization of network information, said NSN in a statement.
NSN’s Services for OTT management is a new set of network planning and optimization services that help operators improve the delivery of third-party content.
The telecom equipment vendor said it decreased video buffering by 30 percent for an operator in Asia Pacific, and enabled an Eastern European operator to deliver better YouTube video experience compared with its rivals. Services for OTT management can also help manage the impact of smart devices and OTT applications on an operator’s network.
NSN’s Services for OTT management helps operators improve the delivery of OTT content, resulting in improved customer experience. For enhanced voice services, NSN is bringing telco cloud based IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), which helps operators transition to Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services rapidly.
The company said its Liquid Applications run on the Radio Application Cloud Server (RACS) within the base stations. NSN is extending the software capabilities of RACS with content acceleration and optimization as well as enabling storage of third-party content. Serving content directly from the base station cuts time-to-content by up to 80 percent and reduces backhaul traffic by up to 25 percent.
NSN is also introducing RACS-based agents in the base station that collect and process network data in real-time. By using tools such as NSN’s Service Quality Manager to analyze this data, operators can gain deeper insight into user actions and preferences. They can pinpoint how to utilize the available network capacity on user preferences and location.
Dirk Lindemeier, business product manager for Liquid Applications at NSN, said: “Operators can take advantage of insights generated in the base stations to find out where and how people use mobile services, and to offer them a completely personalized and contextualized mobile broadband experience.”
