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ISPs: Why Skype Is Better On The IPad
By Soud Alabbasi
Expert Author
Article Date: 2011-11-11
Have you ever wondered how the experience of a certain application differs when using different devices or platforms? Mu Dynamics provides a variety of products that aims to better serve app developers and how they can use infrastructure to their benefit.
Mu Dynamics compared Skype voice calls and instant messaging across different plantforms: iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows 7, and Mac OS X.
Calls on the iPad are much better than those made using a MacBook Pro, while Android and Windows 7 fell somewhere in the middle when it comes to network congestion.
Mu makes products that show how an app scales on an infrastructure. The company aims to "educate both ISPs and app developers about how the software people are building today can affect the infrastructure if the software is widely adopted" according to Stacey Higginbotham, a gigaom.com analyst.
It was multiple phone calls made to Skype's test number of the same duration across different platforms, measuring data transmission and packets' behaviors, and how that impacts the network operator and consumer experience. Data from voice calls and messages did not impact consumers, but in both cases, Mac OS X consumed the most data.
These results show that app developers need to take into consideration the infrastructure through which the data will be transmitted. Simultaneously, ISPs need to understand the types of apps these developers make to better serve consumers.
ISPs and app developers, however, sell to end-consumers, and have no interest in working together nor understanding how apps and infrastructure can affect one another.
About the Author:
Soud is an author for the iEntry Network.
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