Zain KSA And Huawei Complete Proof Of Concept In Saudi Arabia Of World’s First E2E FWA Gaming Accelerator
By Ron Chen, Bureau Chief, Asia
Zain KSA and Huawei have jointly verified Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Gaming Acceleration at Zain KSA’s headquarters in Riyadh.
FWA extends fixed broadband connections, using Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) to receive mobile signals from 5G base stations and convert them into Wi-Fi for household users.
With 25 million in Saudi Arabia, the Gaming Acceleration feature – Service Turbo – upgrades the current FWA solution. Under full network load simulated using SpeedTest, the solution ensured high speed and low latency, with a 90 per cent reduction in jitter and a 70 per cent reduction in latency compared to scenarios without this feature.
Service Turbo is primarily implemented through slicing or dedicated bearer. Huawei’s 5G CPE Pro 5 identifies gaming traffic and attaches game slicing or dedicated bearers in the Huawei Core Network and RAN for the prioritized scheduling and allocation of network resources for gaming traffic.
This ensures user gaming experience, efficiently allocates limited network resources, and helps Zain KSA offer home broadband users new options.
