Facebook, Ericsson, XL Axiata to Improve Network Performance

Jakarta, Indonesia - Facebook, Ericsson and XL Axiata have developed a methodology that is expected to enhance and improve network performance of an application to as much as 70%.

As part of Internet.org’s mission to bring affordable internet access to two thirds of not only Indonesia’s but also of the entire world’s connection, Facebook and XL Axiata, in conjunction to the archipelago’s leading provider, XL Axiata, a subsidiary of Axis Capital Group based in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia but is servicing all over the world. The methodology will be used to measure and improve end to end network performance using simulated Facebook application use cases.

It has been reviewed that network-wide optimization implemented through the joint project delivered up to 70 percent improvement in app coverage.

In Indonesia, 75 percent of users are on 2G GSM/EDGE networks, yet the country has the fourth-largest Facebook user base in the world. The changing market realities in the country are reflected in XL Axiata's network, where, in 2013, data traffic rose by 142 percent. More than half of the operator's 62.9 million subscribers are data users and a majority of those use Facebook, according to XL Axiata estimates.