Bandwidth performance analysis of mobile VoIP solutions

Despite the efforts to improve current 4G technologies by developing the new 5G mobile network, much of the world’s population still relies on older 2G and 3G infrastructures. Although old hardware can be replaced, the costs of such endeavour can be prohibitive for companies operating on developing nations. Network traffic optimisations can be used to provide a better experience for the increasing population of mobile devices connected. This paper provides a base comparison of the bandwidth usage between Horizon Globex’s Smart Packet VoIP Solution (SPVS) and a group of popular applications like Skype, Viber and WhatsApp. The experiment shows SPVS consumes less than 50% the amount of data when compared against the second place, WhatsApp. Nevertheless, more research is required to measure the impacts of the optimisations with respect to quality.