White Paper: Mobile Traffic Offload

Traffic offload technology has been attracting attention in recent years due to efforts made to improve revenues and reduce costs by efficiently handling increases in mobile traffic from mobile network operators as a means of reducing operating costs and improving user experiences. Mobile operators can reduce traffic traversing mobile core networks through offload technology and end-users can obtain benefits from reducing the round-trip time (RTT) to achieve better user experiences. Traffic offloading is a technology to veer traffic from the U-plane directly to the Internet from long term evolution (LTE) base stations (eNBs). Traffic offload in NEC's cloud centric approach to next-generation mobile network solutions is very important as it offers a competitive solution with strong differentiators to mobile operators. This white paper presents the benefits of traffic offloading as part of NEC's cloud centric approach and provides an overview of NEC's development and research activities to ensure the future cloud centric mobile operator networks.