Ensuring seamlessness in mobility services
Timo Hotti, Jari Tavi · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2001
The infrastructure required for wireless and mobility services is becoming increasingly complex involving a multitude of different nodes such as smart terminals, base stations, access gateways and application servers and up to tens of millions of concurrent users. For true mobility services, the need to provide seamless access to data - independent of location or device - becomes apparent. But how do you ensure that this data and the corresponding mobile applications are distributed to those network nodes where the data is needed? Whether it's managing subscriber provisioning data of a large farm of access gateways, replicating application servers to allow for system scalability or distributing application software to smart terminals, seamlessness in mobility services requires a distributed data management functionality coupled with advanced multi-user, multi-device synchronization.