Openwave Mobility at the recent MWC announced the release of an upgrade to its Secure Traffic Manager(STM) solution that the company says is able to manage video delivery over Quick UDP Internet Connection (QUIC), Google’s ubiquitous internet traffic protocol. QUIC extends STM optimization capabilities for encrypted traffic beyond TCP and HTTPS.
According to Openwave Mobility, Google apps such as YouTube are increasingly adopting QUIC which is developed to deliver content faster online as their default transport protocol. This however has had an adverse effect on mobile operators as this UDP-based protocol is heavily encrypted.
STM builds on patent-pending quality-driven optimization for encrypted video traffic including YouTube. The technology empowers mobile operators to manage network utilization based on subscriber’s Quality of Experience (QoE). According to Openwave Mobility, the company's engineers developed the algorithm by human-testing tens of thousands of videos in different devices.
Indranil Chatterjee, SBP Product & Sales
As part of our STM solution, operators will also have access to an easy to implement framework that allows them to manage and optimize future traffic profiles. So, if and when new content providers and protocols emerge, service providers can be ready to deliver a consistent QoE to their subscribers while improving RAN efficiency by 10%.
Sue Rudd, Director Service Provider Analysis at Strategy Analytics
In April last year Google was already serving half of all requests from Chrome to Google servers over QUIC. It is Google’s default transport from all Google clients — both Chrome and mobile apps — to Google servers.
