Airties, Domos to provide latency management to broadband service providers
Metin Taskin of Airties
Airties and Domos, has announced an alliance to provide enhanced latency management capabilities to broadband service providers around world. Airties and Domos will jointly own latency monitoring software module, based on Domos’ existing module, and will be embedded into Airties smart Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) software. Additionally, Domos will gain access to Airties’ customer base to expand distribution of its network X-ray agent through integration with Airties smart Wi-Fi solutions. Financial terms of deal were not disclosed.
“At Airties, our aim is to help broadband service providers improve their subscribers’ quality of experience (QoE) and reduce customer support costs by proactively fixing home network issues. This new strategic alliance with Domos enables us to do that even better by bringing their complementary expertise into our portfolio. Domos’ technology, integrated into our smart Wi-Fi software, will enable us to better monitor and address latency challenges across devices via real-time network optimisations and application prioritisation.” says Metin Taskin, co-CEO and founder of Airties.
“We are excited about this new strategic alliance with Airties to help address the persistent challenge of latency facing application developers and internet users around the world. With the exponential growth in video conferencing, streaming, gaming, and other applications where the impact of latency is significant, it is becoming the key metric to measure and address application outcomes and end user experiences. Given Airties’ market leadership in Managed Wi-Fi, we can now help a large and growing footprint of broadband service providers around the world make their networks truly application aware.” says Olav Nedrelid, CEO and co-founder of Domos.
Benefits of Airties’ hybrid cloud-edge architecture is reduced latency at home network level. The optimisation decisions are made via software on gateway/extender without needing to rely on time delays, and added cost, of cloud. This is critical for applications like video conferencing, gaming, premium video services, and VR (virtual reality)/AR (augmented reality) applications, and it is a vital factor why many broadband operators have selected Airties. With this recent latency capability, Airties will be able to better measure latency at device and application level and leverage that data as part of Airties’ analytics dashboards and optimisation services. Airties plans to offer recent latency monitoring and data analytics as a value added capability as part of company’s patented Wi-Fi experience index (WFEI).
In parallel, Domos will continue to focus on providing other value added latency services to customers, including network X-ray, which provides application centric analytics and root cause analysis across network, helping broadband service providers adapt their network to each individual application, while also enabling application developers to adapt in real time to network at hand. With network X-ray, broadband service providers can identify application outcome issues in cloud, core or access networks or in home where integration with Airties smart Wi-Fi provides automatic optimisations across home network.
Airties has been recognised with many prestigious industry awards for its creative work serving broadband operators, including: “Best Home Wi-Fi Solution Award” from Broadband World Forum; “Best Wi-Fi Service Provider Solution” and “Best Home Wi-Fi Product” awards from Wi-Fi now; “Best-In Home Wi-Fi Network” award from wireless broadband alliance; “Best Broadband Customer Experience” from cable & satellite international; and many others. Domos is a long standing contributor to industry standardisation efforts in Broadband Forum, IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
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