FAQs About ARC Mobile

With ARC Mobile, operators can automatically route traffic over the best quality network (either Wi-Fi or 4G/5G). This ensures that operators avoid unintended routing over more expensive network assets, which allows them to stay competitive and maintain operational efficiencies. 

End users will no longer be responsible for manually troubleshooting and switching to a better-quality connection. ARC Mobile ​intelligently routes traffic over the highest quality network. Traffic is seamlessly shifted to 4G/5G when Wi-Fi is poor, and back to Wi-Fi when it is good. This approach provides session continuity to real-time applications like video calling.

ARC Mobile uses network-probing algorithms and a crowd-sourced approach to find the best network at all times based on traffic measurements. ARC Mobile decides whether, how and when to switch traffic to a different available network using customizable routing policies. 

Yes, operators can set ARC Mobile traffic routing policies for each application type’s traffic. This is done by applying classification algorithms to categorize application traffic without requiring deep packet inspection. 

ARC Mobile leverages a client-server architecture where an application is installed on the mobile device and the server is hosted anywhere that is convenient for the operator. Lightweight server components can be hosted in the operator data center, on premises or third-party cloud. ARC Mobile was built to work in any of these environments. Plus, it is designed for efficiency (battery consumption and data overhead), scalability and security.