Mobile data offloading frees up bandwidth by moving traffic to Wi-Fi networks
Mobile data offloading means routing subscriber traffic away from the cellular network and onto Wi-Fi, which is cheaper to carry and often faster. The catch is the handover: the moment a device switches networks, downloads stall and calls drop.
Speedify is software that combines Wi-Fi and cellular at the same time instead of choosing between them, so traffic shifts onto Wi-Fi gradually and nothing restarts. Speedify keeps the session up when one connection drops only because it has both to work with; on a single connection it works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that connection from dropping.
With Speedify, your internet stays on when one connection fails.
Find out why offloading matters so much to operators, and how combining connections saves an MVNO money while improving what the customer experiences.
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Speedify offers three commercial paths. They work together, and most enterprise customers use two or more.
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Speedify Teams
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Why Mobile Data Offloading Matters to Carriers
Carriers and MVNOs have watched demand outgrow cellular capacity for years. Phones keep getting more capable, subscribers stream more video, and spectrum is expensive. Moving traffic onto the wired and Wi-Fi infrastructure that already exists is the cheapest way to take load off the core cellular network.
Mobile data offloading happens in two places. The phone sends traffic over Wi-Fi whenever it is joined to a network that works, and the carrier adds Wi-Fi capacity (its own hotspots, partner venues, subscribers’ home routers) and steers phones onto it. Every gigabyte that travels over Wi-Fi is a gigabyte the cellular network does not have to carry.
Until recently, operators could not push mobile data offloading tactics further without hurting the customer experience. The obstacles include:
- Phones are slow to tell when a hotspot is “dead” (connected but not passing traffic)
- Manually switching between networks is time consuming and cumbersome
- Consumers end up with interrupted internet access during network changeovers
- Consumer concern about hotspot security
Speedify gives network operators and hardware makers its technology for combining internet connections: traffic moves between internet connections without dropping the session, which improves quality of experience while cutting LTE usage.
Mobile Data Offloading with Speedify: Lower Costs for MVNOs, Better Service for Subscribers
Speedify handles combining internet connections and Wi-Fi offloading issues on mobile devices. It can be built into existing iOS, Android, Windows and macOS software and runs in the background monitoring and improving network performance for all the apps on the device. Speedify is cost aware and uses policy based routing that can be configured for increased speed or reduced cellular usage. Optional VPN encryption means that Speedify can also keep users secure across public Wi-Fi networks.
When a phone joins a hotspot that is connected but not passing traffic, the phone can take a long time to give up on it and return to cellular, and some phones stay stuck on the dead hotspot. The subscriber is left without a working internet connection and learns to avoid hotspots. Speedify keeps cellular in use alongside Wi-Fi, so when the Wi-Fi stops carrying data, traffic continues over cellular on the same session.
Speedify Is Used on Millions of Devices Worldwide
Speedify has made internet connections faster and more reliable for businesses and individuals since 2014.
15M+
Speedify downloads worldwide75K+
5-star reviews for Speedify on iOS and Android82
Speedify server points of presence in 50+ cities on 6 continents500TB+
Of internet traffic carried by Speedify every weekSpeedify Partners
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Learn How Speedify Can Solve Mobile Data Offloading for Your Business
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Speedify Embedded Solutions and Integrations
Add Speedify to your own app or hardware with the Speedify SDK. Your product then combines internet connections, fails over automatically when one drops, and encrypts the traffic, using the same technology as the Speedify app.