Comments on: Wi-Fi offload and the $2 trillion dollar question https://wifinowglobal.com/2016/usa/news-blogs/wi-fi-offload-and-the-2-trillion-dollar-question/ Wi-Fi NOW USA 2016 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:40:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Phil Cootey https://wifinowglobal.com/2016/usa/news-blogs/wi-fi-offload-and-the-2-trillion-dollar-question/#comment-18 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:19:23 +0000 https://wifinowglobal.com/2016/usa/europe/?p=1546#comment-18 This is exactly what Forager Networks believes. We have been saying this for years. The term was “intelligent offload” The blind offload problem is still out there, where operators don’t trust Wi-Fi. Analytic platforms, distributed systems, give the assist that these handoffs and operators need.

Devices need help to pick the best network, to save on power and optimize network selection. But not instructions, let the device figure it out. The device knows what network is the best to connect to, it’s always in the right time and place.

The trick with smart phones is power, you can’t be scanning for WiFi all day long. Technologies with activity recognition, and other power saving algorithms, and assistance from distributed systems, make these type of handoffs possible, without killing the battery.

We enable the device to make the right decision at the right time and place; onboard intelligence, rather than telling it what networks to connect to. We focus on interoperable handoffs between networks; in place network decisions, which allow the device to bridge Wi-Fi and Cellular networks.

Then there is the streaming solution, continuous connectivity between networks. How do the packets keep up? Ask us how.

Phil

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