Reliance Jio and Cisco to Develop Mobile Content Delivery Network to Offer Better User Experience

Reliance Jio and Cisco today announced that they would be developing a new mobile content delivery network (CDN) to improve the video watching user experience in smartphones. A report recently said that video would comprise 82% of all IP network traffic by 2021, as more are watching on multiple screens. And this turned into a challenge for mobile operators on how to scale the network to handle all this video traffic and how to manage a profitable video around video. To address the changing dynamics of network traffic, Reliance Jio and Cisco’s strategic relationship scales across multiple domains and technology areas.

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Over the past year, Reliance Jio’s Cisco-powered, the all-IP network has grown significantly in size, and with new growth is further expected to see tremendous growth over the next several months. “Cisco and Reliance Jio are now working together to leverage the power of multi-access edge computing, beginning with a use case to further optimise and enhance video experience over the network by developing a mobile content delivery network (CDN),” said a media statement from Jio.

In this concept, the CDN is integrated into the mobile LTE network with edge caches in close proximity to the mobile users. With a mobile CDN, the mobile operator can deliver content via edge cloudlets to provide a better user experience with lower latency and higher performance.

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And the companies have already come up with a prototype. For the prototype, the companies used a combination of IP address management techniques based on the mobile core, requiring tight integration between edge cache, mid-tier cache, and the traffic router in the Cisco Open Media Distribution system. The mobile core and the Cisco Open Media Distribution were combined into one system level solution for the CDN embedded in the mobile network.