Expway announced today the successful demonstration of its LTE Multicast Middleware on iOS. eCast™ Middleware is a device software that controls the LTE modem and provides application developers means to access LTE Multicast services easily, for both live video and file downloads.
“As per today, LTE Multicast deployments rely heavily on Android devices but there is a clear market demand for LTE multicast on all the other major operating systems such as iOS, Windows, and Linux as well. This is required now when future platforms will include all car devices, smartphones, mobile hotspots, set-top-boxes and so forth,” states Claude Seyrat, CEO of Expway Corp. “Expway’s unique value proposition is the ability to provide multicast on any LTE modem, on any type of device and on any operating system,” concluded Seyrat.
LTE Multicast allows carriers to off-load a large percentage of their video and data traffic. For example, YouTube traffic represents 30% of operators’ traffic. They can now reduce this traffic by 12%, simply by caching the 20 most viewed videos on the devices via LTE Multicast.
Another field that LTE Multicast can revolutionize is mobile video advertising, as even the HD-quality ads can be delivered with no buffering at an amazing low cost.
The demonstration was held Friday January 5th at Expway’s offices in Sunnyvale, CA. It was running a complete integrated LTE network including an LTE Multicast server, a software packet core network (EPC) and eNodeB. The LTE Multicast signal was received through a LTE Hotspot and redistributed over Wifi to an iPad Air 2®.
Expway is presenting its LTE Multicast solution at CES’2015.
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About the company
EXPWAY is the world leader in delivery of OTT content and files in a multicast mode over wireless networks. Telecom operators such as NTT DoCoMo, Reliance Infocomm, and ODMs such as Sony and Intel use its solutions today. To find out more, please visit http://www.expway.com.
About the solution
The LTE Multicast Middleware controls the LTE modem, receives and decodes the LTE Multicast streams. It stores or displays the received content through a separate Video Player. It also provides comprehensive APIs that are used by the application.
The LTE Multicast BM-SC Server handles the service layer at the LTE Multicast network, allowing the Carrier to push files and delivers live TV streams, on its LTE network, by using multicast.
