6 kilobytes is exactly how much data Openwave’s new browsing optimization platform can save when loading Google’s mobile Website into the typical phone browser. That may not seem like a lot of data, but when multiplied by millions of page requests that 6k suddenly becomes an enormous amount of data, especially considering Google’s scaled down mobile site usually only takes up 15k of space.
Through image compression, content reformatting, script tweaks and the elimination of extraneous elements, Openwave’s new Accelerator platform—which it will unveil Wednesday at CTIA Wireless—aims to reduce as much data traversing the radio access network as possible. Depending on the site and the mobile browser accessing it, Openwave estimates it can shrink pages down by 30% to 70% with Accelerator, said Michael Rodgers, product marketing manager within Openwave’s service management group.
And what remaining data must make the journey, Accelerator will ensure gets there faster through content caching, which saves commonly accessed pages in Openwave’s Integra servers in the core network. “If we’ve already compressed an image and it’s requested again, we’ll tap into that compressed image so we don’t perform the same tasks needlessly again,” Rodgers said. The idea is not only to save the overall amount of data on the network, but reduce the number of hops it must take to the browser, Rodgers said.
Accelerator is a new plug-in to Openwave’s Integra mobile Web services platform, which has been deployed by one Tier I operator and North America as well as several regional operators. Openwave said it will be available for commercial deployments in the 2nd quarter.
