The growing
rate of encryption, especially SPDY-encrypted Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) over mobile wireless networks, has both immediate and long-term impacts
on the mobile broadband ecosystem and wireless technology architectures. As the
rate of encryption grows, Mobile Service Providers (MSPs) are forced to rethink
their service offerings and value proposition, how they manage capacity and
customer experience and how value-added services will be impacted.
The term SPDY, pronounced “speedy”, was established and
trademarked by Google and is not an acronym. It was developed as an open
networking protocol for transporting web content. SPDY encapsulates multiple
HTTP flows in a TLS header, with particular goals of reducing web page load
latency and improving web security. SPDY achieves reduced latency through HTTP
header compression, stream multiplexing, and request prioritization. As of July
2012, the group developing SPDY has stated publicly that it is working toward
standardization (internet draft).
The first draft of HTTP 2.0 is using SPDY as the working
base for its specification draft and editing. Implementations of SPDY exist in
Chromium, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Amazon Silk and Internet Explorer and will be
included in the Safari release accompanying Apple's OS X Yosemite.
This paper
provides insights from 4G Americas about the Impact of SPDY on mobile broadband ecosystem and value added services
(VAS)
