Matrixx on the growth and unpredictability of LTE sessions

Jennifer Kyriakakis, founder and VP of marketing for Matrixx Software, talks about what her customers are seeing in LTE and LTE-Advanced session growth and how her company is helping them cope with the quickly increasing growth.
As LTE networks are deployed, Kyriakakis said, the number of LTE sessions grows exponentially and include very high diameter signalling traffic as well as complexity of services and the amount of data needed to be accessed for sessions.
“It’s not just that you have more sessions, you also have sessions that need to touch more data within the OCS and PCRF database to be able to figure out what they’re going to charge, and what kind of policies they’re going to transact for that specific transaction,” Kyriakakis noted.
Operators are finding that existing systems are not able to scale to meet the volume of sessions and cope with the unpredictability of traffic patterns, she added. Kyriakis also touches on the concept of data being “locked” once it is accessed, and how locked data adds to latency.
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