PERFORMANCE TUNING MOBILE API – NETWORK

A mobile application by default has a network component. The portion from the phone to the Ethernet card of the API servers. Who has not seen the US commercials “can you hear me now?” Canadian Wireless Service providers spend significant effort to plan their network coverage, identify poor performance, do capacity planning and ensure signal coverage. This includes crowd sourcing, BI, using tools and even driving around. Wireless networks are however not static and everything from the number of tree leaves, to time of day, affect the signal strength and capacity for a given location (Wireless bandwidth is limited and shared per cell frequency and cell coverage). Add to this nearly 10,000,000 square km of geography we have in Canada and you can understand the enormity of testing the network.

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