Why You Want Real Time Traffic Steering

If your smartphone discovers nearby Wi-Fi hotspots, wouldn't it be great if the phone automatically switched from its cellular connection to Wi-Fi, but only when the Wi-Fi link is providing better service, and then automatically changes back to cellular when needed? That's the idea behind real-time traffic steering. The concept involves adding intelligence into different networks that allows them to share information about their quality of service and enable devices to regularly make decisions about which network they prefer to join. It's not very interesting when your devices are only ever in the presence of one network at a time, but as networks continue proliferating around the world, real-time traffic steering is looking better and better.