The worldwide market for mobile network monitoring and optimization will exceed US$40 billion over the next 5 years, according to ABI Research. The increase is directly related to the proliferation of mobile broadband, especially the 4G LTE adoption that requires operators to actively manage this traffic and achieve capacity improvement.
Mobile optimization is more important than ever and the advent of all IP services, including VoLTE, VoWi-Fi, LTE-U / LAA requires close attention from the operator to assure the Quality of Experience (QoE). ABI Research said that monetization, DPI, Optimization and Policy remain the largest segments and come together as part of a total revenue enhancement solution. All leading network infrastructure vendors, including Ericsson, Nokia Networks and Alcatel-Lucent, offer their own or partnered solutions, said AB Research. Likewise, the independents, such as Citrix ByteMobile and Openwave Mobility, provide differentiated, targeted and ready-to-use solutions for every mobile broadband operator.
These forecasts are published ABI Research as a part of its mobile network monitoring and optimization market update, which tracks various elements including UE client optimization, radio test, radio probes, routing / transport optimization, DPI, TCP, video and audio optimization, and policy servers.
Joe Hoffman, Practice Director, Mobile Networks
Widespread adoption of SSL-encryption changes the game, from compression, transcoding and transrating to throttling, pacing and manipulating the Adaptive Bitrate Stream from the content provider to achieve operator goals. State-of-the-art traffic management technology delivers a better customer experience and virtual capacity gains that operators will appreciate.
