It is expected that by 2016 wireless traffic will have increased 50 fold from 2012.
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And this would contribute to a 50-fold growth in wireless traffic by 2016.
The government is also facing bandwidth gridlock as it attempts to switch wireless traffic communications to the world standard 5.9 GHz.
Very few, such as McCarran International in Las Vegas, monitor all wireless traffic for intruders. (The Vegas airport officials are quick to add that they don't censor for content.) Others, like San Francisco International, are laissez-faire.
Then a recent report from the House Intelligence Committee brought up the issue of potential security issues with Chinese telecom Huawei, which installed gear to manage traffic on wireless networks in the U.S. The report noted the potential for spying through Huawei gear installed to manage traffic on wireless networks.
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The change primarily will help carriers to stop juggling multiple platforms and to better manage surging wireless data traffic.
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The survey also showed a 111 percent increase in wireless data traffic.
The carrier also is spending billions of dollars to build out a next-generation broadband network, using a technology called LTE, that can handle more wireless data traffic.
However, wireless data traffic dropped 7.4% sequentially and average revenue per user declined from 71 to 63 RMB, suggesting that many of the 3G additions may not have been of the highest quality.
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McShane also notes that data indicates traffic to wireless and consumer electronics retailer was down in early July.
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Analysts say Huawei is now one of the leading vendors globally of equipment for Long Term Evolution, or LTE, a wireless standard that allows higher traffic speeds than older networks.
More flexibility in managing data traffic could also prompt wireless service providers to incorporate their own CDN-like technologies, thereby providing new competition for Akamai.
Mobile traffic growth is both a result of stimulation of higher internet usage as well as the shift of some traffic from wireline to wireless networks.
Voice calling was a lucrative business for wireless companies for years, but voice traffic has declined as data consumption has grown.
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If local wireless networks proliferate as expected, the traffic will generate so much noise that nobody will be able to get a clear signal, especially in cities that already have thousands of transmitters in offices and homes.
"This creates three big wireless competitors carrying about 75% of the traffic, " says independent telecom analyst Jeff Kagan.
New data from wireless infrastructure maker Ericsson shows that mobile data traffic jumped 130% in the first quarter of 2011 from 2010.
Carriers could spare their wireless networks 20% to 40% of incremental traffic growth by offloading.
Take Netflix video being 49% of Internet traffic, delivered either to TVs over wireless or a laptop by someone at an airport.
At Cingular Wireless, a national mobile operator, network call traffic surged to 400 percent of its normal level from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
He added that based on technology that the company has already demonstrated and some that is still under development, it thinks the wireless industry will be able to handle all that traffic without having to boost user fees.
It would seem there is a relatively simple solution to the wireless data deluge faced by mobile operators: shift the traffic that is tying up their networks to Wi-Fi hotspots whenever possible.
It developed Blast, which will soon let wireless carriers provide video or handle a twentyfold increase in calling traffic over a single frequency.
Traditionally, companies involved in internet traffic management have often helped each other out in the wireless internet space.
That, in turn, creates congestion problems for wireless carriers, which may push them to partner with Boingo to offload that traffic.
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Wireless phones may be able to help commuters across the country who search for traffic reports on the radio, online, and on TV.
" Interestingly enough, the system supposedly relies on "modified software" running on regular WiFi equipment, and wireless access points with the newfangled software can seemingly daisy-chain directional network traffic through "several carefully aligned steerable antennas in order to eventually reach a fiber link connected to the internet.
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