Ericsson will take advantage of MWC to launch its CDN service

To address the rapidly growing demand for mobile data consumption, Ericsson announced that it will launch its service CDN (Content Delivery Network) at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, which begins February 25.

CDNs are not the preserve of gender specialists or telcos (Orange, SFR, OVH in France). Ericsson will also in the battle and will kick off at the MWC in Barcelona. CDN service is already called "Ericsson Media Delivery Network."

For the Swedish giant, the service was created to "harmonize the delivery of content across fixed and mobile networks based on optimization packages and radio capabilities, combined with the new management services and intelligent control , "

Optimized for video 

Recall that the principle of a CDN is to optimize the transfer time of a given point A to point B, finding the best "roads" possible through the mesh of the Internet. With the explosion of data consumption on mobile networks including the optimization becomes inevitable and almost mandatory for operators. The CDN Ericsson would meanwhile optimized for video streams. According to Ericsson, global mobile data traffic will be multiplied by 12 in 2018.