14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia Siemens, the second largest telecommunications equipment supplier in the world, claims in a blog post that Apple’s iOS 4.2 supports a technology called Network Controlled Fast Dormancy, which creates a better relationship between the iPhone and its network to increase performance.
Created as the result of a joint venture between Siemens's COM division (minus its Enterprise business unit) and Nokia's Network Business Group, Nokia Siemens Networks has this nice little blog where it proudly announced: “New iPhone OS supports our network technology to boost smartphone performance”
“With its latest iPhone iOs 4.2 software, it looks like Apple is joining efforts to cut smartphone signalling down to size,” the company’s Vijay Sankaran writes.
“Tests by Nokia Siemens Networks have shown that iPhone iOs 4.2 supports a technology called Network Controlled Fast Dormancy, which we have already introduced into our networks,” Sankaran reveals.
“Basically, the technology makes the network and the handset work together to create the best conditions for smartphones to work quickly, yet have a long battery life and minimize network congestion,” he explains.
Nokia Siemens’ guy then goes to elaborate that smartphones constantly connect constantly to their network, a process which “takes time and can cause a frustratingly slow network response. On the other hand, leaving the smartphone in an active mode all the time drains the battery very quickly,” Sankaran outlines.
“To overcome the problem Nokia Siemens Networks introduced a method that, instead of putting the handset into idle or keeping it always active, keeps the handset in an intermediate state,” according to the blogger.
Sankaran explains why this is a better choice, pointing out that a smartphone can wake up much more quickly from this “intermediate state”. The device also needs to send far fewer signals to and from the network to start the data connection, thanks to NCFD.
“You get a fast network response and a longer battery life,” he concludes.
According to Nokia Siemens iOS 4.2 supports this way of working on networks that have the technology implemented. Nokia itself implemented the technology in its smartphones earlier this year.