Towards the end of last year, it was predicted that 2011 would see a significant rise in mobile video, due to mobile networks improving their infrastructure and operators expanding their offering to include video.
New research has discovered that just 10% of all mobile phone users account for a massive 90% of all networks’ data traffic. The research, conducted by Bytemobile, also suggests that in 2011 60% of all traffic will be video based content (up from 40% in 2010), which will be an all-time high for mobile data traffic. According to Bytemobile, the domination of video will be due to the rise in full-length and studio-quality videos, the live streaming of multimedia content on mobiles, along with two-way video communication.
One question being asked is how will networks keep up with the increasing demand for smartphones and access to video on mobile devices? Bytemobile have claimed that as users start to want more bandwidth-intensive content, “operators will add ‘Smart Capacity’ solutions to both the data centers and the packet core of their networks to better utilize capacity for rising traffic demand. These solutions combine caching, content filtering, policy enforcement, access control, and capacity control points to create smarter networks for managing existing capacity”.
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