Cloud computing and 4G: made for each other

Grazed from CFO. Author: Editorial Staff.

There’s a natural synergy between cloud computing services and mobile broadband, especially the latest 4G services. There are many benefits to cloud-based applications such as the cloud contact centre services offered by Premier Technologies. They enable the full functionality of the application to be available to anyone, anywhere. All they need is a sufficiently fast and sufficiently reliable broadband connection. Indeed, Premier already has a customer who is successfully using its Premier Contact Point cloud based solution over the 4G network.

Mobile broadband provides a connection to anyone anywhere within its coverage area. And the latest mobile broadband technology, Long Term Evolution (LTE) (better but incorrectly known as 4G) provides a mobile broadband connection that is sufficiently fast for most applications. Telstra has the most extensive 4G network in Australia and claims typical download speeds of between 2Mbps and 40Mbps and upload speeds typically between 1Mbps and 10Mbps…

Back in November 2011 Canadian consultancy Maravedis produced a study "4G + Cloud = Innovation & Profits?" It focussed on "how 4G wireless combined with cloud computing will drive a new wave of innovation and RoI for operator content, services and applications." It identified the main challenges to offering cloud services as being "strategy, investment, and business model, followed closely by network performance."…

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