Openwave Mobility First to Use High quality-Conscious Optimization for Stay Gaming Broadcasts

As billions of gaming hours are broadcast reside, carriers are struggling to take care of excessive bandwidth calls for and High quality of Expertise

REDWOOD CITY, CA – 15 October 2015 – Openwave Mobility, a software program innovator enabling operators to handle and monetize encrypted and unencrypted cell knowledge, introduced right now that it efficiently showcased optimization of live-gaming broadcast site visitors by way of websites together with YouTube Gaming and Twitch for a Tier 1 European operator. Openwave Mobility is the primary to make use of quality-aware site visitors administration for live-gaming broadcasts. The corporate lowered bitrates by over 40% for YouTube Gaming and Twitch whereas sustaining a wonderful QoE for subscribers.

In style websites resembling Twitch and YouTube Gaming have grown at an astonishing price. The websites cater to hundreds of thousands of worldwide lovers with dynamic real-time streaming gameplay that make the most of reside video feeds. It's estimated that guests on Twitch alone watch on common over 100 minutes of gaming video per day. Along with websites resembling YouTube Gaming, these websites generate billions of hours of reside gaming streaming broadcasts which might be accessed by players on PC and cell. This nonetheless poses distinctive challenges to cell operators when in comparison with the same old YouTube Video on Demand (VoD) service.

Indranil Chatterjee, Openwave Mobility’s VP of Product Administration, Advertising & Technique explains: “Live-gaming streams are far more data demanding than VoD. And they can consume considerable bandwidth. That’s bad news for operators and a bad experience for the gaming fans. Operators are struggling to deal with the phenomenal growth in video – and now most of that is encrypted too. That’s another headache. For cost conscious subscribers, higher bandwidth means higher data bills. That’s where our innovative technology comes in.”

Chatterjee continues: “Our solutions can effectively manage bandwidth hungry applications, and our engineers were able to do this in less than 24 hours after YouTube Gaming was launched in August. We’ve enabled carriers to deliver both a superb gaming and video experience – and subscribers don’t have to suffer from bill shock. What’s more our technology optimizes encrypted mobile data without compromising security, privacy and quality. In gaming terms, it’s a win-win!”

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About Openwave Mobility
Openwave Mobility empowers operators to handle and monetize each encrypted and unencrypted cell site visitors. Based mostly on the trade's most scalable NFV platform, its virtualized options get rid of RAN congestion, maximize worth from subscriber knowledge and create new income alternatives. The corporate offers options for cell knowledge optimization, subscriber knowledge administration and focused promotions.

The corporate offers true provider class options, working with over 40 of the world’s most progressive service suppliers together with AT&T, Du, KDDI, Meditel, Orange, Rogers, Sasktel, Dash, Telstra, Telus, and T-Cell. Openwave Mobility is owned by Marlin Fairness Companions, a number one funding agency with over a billion {dollars} of capital below administration that has publicly dedicated to constructing the corporate via expanded funding in R&D. The corporate has constructed a strong portfolio of Mental Property, which is rising month by month. Openwave Mobility has a worldwide presence and is headquartered in California.

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