Offload

that we will share with other Brazilian mobile services operators, and expect to offer 4G LTE services during the FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil in June 2013. In November 2011, we began deploying a network of Wi-Fi hotspots in order to offload traffic from our mobile network. The Oi Wi-Fi network is composed of sub networks that are accessible (1) from indoor public and commercial sites, (2) from outdoor public spaces, and (3) from residential access points of our…

Time-to-Live (TTL), fragment IDs/offset, and length. IPv4 routers then must compute a new header checksum before forwarding the packet. Even though IPv6 devices have more bits to parse through to reach the destination address, their jobs are simpler, which offloads processing at the forwarding devices. IPv6’s design minimizes the work required by the intermediary devices and puts more responsibility on the end nodes for parsing through the entire header structure. The goal is to try to do…