Citrix introduced this morning that it’s buying cellular visitors optimization firm Bytemobile – a transfer which Citrix says will permit it to enter the cellular and video market with entry to the infrastructure of 130 cellular operators in 60 international locations worldwide. Combined, the 2 corporations will supply the cellular operators options to assist them higher handle the ever-increasing quantity of community visitors, of each information and video, whereas additionally giving them higher visibility into metrics associated to efficiency, visibility and effectivity.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but it surely has been accepted the Board of Directors and is predicted to shut in Q3 2012.
Following the deal’s completion, Bytemobile will type a brand new Service Provider Platforms staff inside Citrix, as part of the Citrix Cloud Networking product group. It will permit Citrix to maneuver past its present enterprise and cloud prospects, to additionally start to supply options throughout the telecommunications area.
Bytemobile and Citrix had been already companions on the Bytemobile T1100 Traffic Director, having introduced a proper relationship at this yr’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The T1100 helps cellular carriers scale their networks utilizing the appliance supply intelligence of the Citrix NetScaler platform, which offers the load-balancing know-how. Bytemobile has different merchandise as effectively, particularly two “Smart Capacity” platforms – the Unison Platform and the T-Series Adaptive Traffic Management System. Its know-how portfolio consists of issues that assist with internet and video optimization, content material caching, coverage management, visitors administration, cellular analytics and deep packet inspection. Its options work on 3G and 4G LTE networks.
Based in Santa Clara, Bytemobile has 300 staff, however by way of its community of 130 cellular operators, its optimizations attain 2 billions cellular subscribers worldwide. Currently, Bytemobile says it sees over 20 petabytes of information visitors by way of its buyer networks day-after-day.
Bytemobile routinely places out data-filled stories on the impression of cellular’s development on service networks, which reveal the necessity for optimization options. For instance, a report from February discovered that video now accounts for half of all cellular visitors – one thing which could be attributed to the expansion of smartphones, tablets, rising speeds offered by operators themselves, in addition to the recognition of companies like YouTube, Hulu and Netflix. Optimization and efficiency is essential to the carriers’ backside line, as a result of, if not managed correctly, community congestion results in poor expertise for finish customers (cellular subscribers) who then bounce to different networks as a substitute. One resolution, in fact, is so as to add infrastructure and new spectrum to assist present the capability for all of the cellular information and video being pushed by way of the carriers’ networks. But Bytemobile permits the operators to defer these prices, by well managing community efficiency and visitors as a substitute.
