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Trip Report: State of European Wireless Network

Recently, our CEO, Ross Bott, spoke at the Broadband Traffic Management event in London and heard a new perspective on how network traffic is growing and causing a problem in Europe.  This is timely, as it seems that several European … Continue reading

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Capped Data Plans Won’t Save Wireless Networks

The trend toward capped data plans is the latest attempt by US carriers to combat growing network congestion. AT&T was the first carrier to introduce capped data in 2010 with Verizon and T-Mobile following suit this year. Sprint recently capped … Continue reading

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Is Ice Cream Sandwich a Network Meltdown for Operators?

Google’s upcoming Android 4.0 operating system (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich) promises great new features for managing data. New features, that is, for everyone but wireless carriers who are drowning in data. In late Oct., Google released Ice Cream Sandwich to … Continue reading

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As Mobile Network Optimization Segment Blossoms, Carriers Feeling Pressure to Implement Now

We started 2011 with an introduction of SEVEN Open Channel, our breakthrough mobile traffic optimization technology, and as the last couple months of this year dwindle away, the market predictions for traffic optimization are becoming larger than ever and carriers … Continue reading

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Hotmail Goes Android with SEVEN Networks

Exciting news: our long-standing partnership with Microsoft has taken a new turn as we announce the availability of the official Hotmail App for Android, an app SEVEN developed and are jointly marketing with Microsoft. First off, this is exciting for … Continue reading

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SEVEN Tips to Surviving the Mobile Data Tsunami

The traditional practices of carriers where they provide services such as all-you-can-eat data plans is a thing of the past. The data tsunami is forcing them to rethink the way they deliver services while still providing a superior quality of … Continue reading

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Apps Gone Wild: How to Stop Chatty Apps From Bringing Down Networks

Bad apps are making headlines around the wireless industry for consuming massive bandwidth and slowing down the network. Joining social media and instant messaging apps, popular games such as Angry Birds, are the latest apps to send mobile signaling skyrocketing, … Continue reading

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Managing the surge in mobile data-Bandwidth? Fast dormancy? Signaling?

In 2010 the massive growth in data, primarily from smartphones and tablets, introduced new challenges to mobile operators forcing them to rethink the way they manage and support the surge in data. Dan Hays, a partner at consultant firm PRTM, … Continue reading

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SEVEN’s Open Channel™ Brings Home Best Technology Breakthrough Prize at Mobile World Congress

The launch of our breakthrough new Open Channel mobile traffic optimization technology created a lot of anticipation going into Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.  Customers were interested.  The press and analysts were interested.  So, too, were the judges of the … Continue reading

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SEVEN Open Channel™ Debut Sparks Great Reaction

“Imagine a three-year-old in the backseat of a car asking every two seconds “Are we there yet?” endlessly. That three-year-old is the Facebook mobile app, requesting data from Facebook’s servers hundreds of times daily, constantly using up network resources while … Continue reading

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