Elitecore Makes Offloading Easier

      

Elitecore announced "the “Easy Connect” feature in its Mobile Data Offload (MDO) offering with a mobile app client for Android/iOS, WiFi Offload Location Awareness Module and an enhanced Captive Portal. Designed to attract large numbers of 2G-3G users to WiFi services, Easy Connect will enable operators to overcome last mile hurdles in offering fast and seamless WiFi connectivity, along with improved reach/awareness of the solution". 

"The Mobile app solution supports intuitive features such as one-touch connectivity, automatic connection to available WiFi, zero configuration for end customer and WiFi status check at the time of connectivity .. Elitecore has also introduced WiFi Offload Location Awareness Module which will enable operators to assure WiFi availability to walk-in users at events, hotspots, university etc. for a specific period of time. As soon as the users come within WiFi range, they are alerted about available WiFi zone via SMS".

Dhaval Vora (pictured), VP, Product Management, Elitecore, said: “Operators lose huge chunks of potential WiFi revenues because some phones do not support EAP-SIM authentication, leading to a complex and cumbersome authentication. Elitecore’s mobile app caters to non EAP-SIM use cases as well as EAP SIM phones such as iOS, the user now has to only download the app from the marketplace and install it on his device for seamless connectivity to WiFi services”.

See "Elitecore Iintroduces “easy connect” feature in WiFi offload solution" - here.

New Start-up Promises X2 Faster Video Streaming with "Crowd CDN"

A new Israeli start-up promises to reduce 98% of Re-Buffering pauses and accelerates videos streaming by 2X by using "crowd CDN", report Avi Weiss to TheNewCom (here, Hebrew).

Yoel Zanger (pictured), CEO of the company, Giraffic ("combination of a Giraffe and Traffic - Paraphrasing on the concept of turning the long tail of content– similar to video consumption traffic, to the "long-neck" or "high-head" – symbolizes reversing of current new media age content consumption patterns") explains:

"We are the Crowd Sourcing of the video world. We give all the power to the content providers and the spectators. The content reaches to the viewer from other viewers, holding small pieces of the video clip he wishes to watch - with no central server or CDN".

"Our technology is distributed storage - we take the content from the provider, code it, and distribute over the network in small pieces, which are collected by viewers and assembled back. We can do the same to other HTTP content types, and we have a client for the end-devices, including mobile phones and Smart TVs".

"We have now 5 employees, over 5M users and we have raised so far $2M from private investors. Veoh and Mako are paying customers. We compete with CDNs"