• This AI-based tool should help to optimize network reliability for new 5G or fiber uses.
Network service quality is becoming vital in ensuring that new 5G uses, for example in industrial robotics or connected vehicles, develop in the best possible way. With this in mind, the Montreal-based telecoms startup LatenceTech has teamed up with Orange to develop a tool that can measure network throughput, latency and reliability in real time. “This real-time software solution based on multiple protocols, including ,” is simple to install and use, explained Benoit Gendron, Co-Founder and CEO of LatenceTech. “It is an automated solution that runs autonomously on any type of terminal, including mobiles, modems, robots and cars. It is also scalable and can be deployed in multiple locations on the same network.”
Enabling customers to play a part in managing their own networks
Optimized Testing
The joint design of this measurement agent illustrates the open innovation approach. The solution now incorporates the new, Orange-patented LIFBE effective throughput measurement technique, which consumes less bandwidth and energy and therefore has a lower carbon footprint. A throughput test consumes between 150 and 250 megabytes! “This partnership allows us to explore areas that we could not have addressed with our own resources,” said François Jézéquel, Head of Business Development at the Orange Fab startup accelerator. “It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement: LatenceTech retains the intellectual property of the components and we have exclusive use of them for our networks.”
A “Telco as a Platform” Deployment
LatenceTech deploys its solution on an “on-demand service” cloud platform, enabling it to meet the growing needs of companies, which are increasingly seeking to easily and autonomously monitor their networks over a given period of time, depending on their use. This “ ” approach enables almost instantaneous implementation by the customer themselves.
As well as providing diagnostic assistance, the solution can use generative AI to detect anomalies (worse latency, reduced throughput, packet losses, etc.) and generate forthcoming latency forecasts and recommendations, based on the diagnosis from the measurements. “We want our customers to play a part in managing their own networks,” explained Jézéquel. “And, with their ever-increasing 5G uses, they appreciate this autonomy.”
A Wide Range of Applications
The product is in the final phase of development. It will be available at the end of May 2024 and unveiled at the VivaTech conference in Paris with demonstrations of measurement tests and network performance analyses on a connected vehicle, as well as a software installation walkthrough.
The deployment of flexible measurement software such as LatenceTech makes it much easier to guarantee the expected service quality of the network and the applications that use it. These applications are numerous and range from critical industrial activities (manufacturing robotics, etc.) that require connectivity quality to be continuously monitored to the increasingly demanding uses of the general public, such as those of gamers willing to pay for guaranteed optimal network response times.
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François Jézéquel
