Alexander is the CTO of Sandvine. He likes to think of himself as a creative, and he inspires creativity and innovation among his colleagues. Alexander's specialties are DPI, C, Software, Cowboy coding, productification, AQM and Networking.
By Alexander Haväng, Chief Technical Officer March 22, 2022
Amid the hype about the Metaverse, flying taxis, and robotic dogs, it was the more practical questions about generating new revenues and managing application QoE that prevailed
Topics: Application intelligence, Mobile world congress, Mwc, 5G, Application and network intelligence
By Alexander Haväng, Chief Technical Officer February 10, 2022
Momentum toward immersive, interactive VR experiences will affect their 5G future in terms of capacity, congestion, and business models unless they plan ahead
When tech prophesier Neal Stephenson coined the phrase “metaverse” 30 years ago, it was only in sci-fi that digital and physical worlds really melded. But Facebook’s rebrand to Meta is attempting to...
Topics: Quality of experience qoe, 5G, Vr, Application and network intelligence, Ar
By Alexander Haväng, Chief Technical Officer January 19, 2022
QUIC improves app performance and QoE for OTT players, but makes sophisticated traffic analysis a more urgent need for operators seeing more “unknown” traffic on their networks.
We have written about the growing importance of apps in our lives, and who the most dominant players are right now, with both topics covered in depth in our upcoming “Global...
Topics: Big data, Qoe, Quality of experience, Customer experience, 5G, Dx, Cx, Service assurance
By Alexander Haväng, Chief Technical Officer October 20, 2021
Five key ingredients for success are: Architecture, App Classification, Measurement, Data Layer, Visualization Layer and Workflow
In this 5G tech turn, if you’re a CTO or VP of Planning, Big Data, Ops or Engineering you need to engineer massive capacity growth as we all become “heavy users.” You also need to improve application quality of experience, and...
Topics: Big data, Quality of experience, Analytics, 5G, Dx, Cx, Service assurance
By Alexander Haväng, Chief Technical Officer March 16, 2020
With schools and offices closing, the nature of daytime internet usage in mobile and fixed broadband networks will change. The traffic and activities that would have taken place face-to-face or on networks in the schools, universities, and offices will move to the home.
Topics: Traffic management, Maximizing qoe, Wifi, Automation, Covid 19, Capacity
By Alexander Haväng, Chief Technical Officer September 11, 2019
Google’s Stadia is hitting our networks in November, and Nvidia’s GeForce Now is imminent as well. What is this cloud gaming stuff, really?
Topics: Automation, Global internet phenomena, Active network intelligence, Gaming, Google stadia
