Verizon launches wireless private network traffic management

Verizon today introduced an LTE wireless traffic management service to give business and government customers the ability to prioritize critical network-based applications.

Verizon will offer different service levels, including a "mission critical" class, that a customer could use for video or voice over IP traffic. In that scenario, a customer could decide to prioritize video communications above emails or even lower-priority communications in a machine-to-machine network.

Verizon said it is the first U.S.-based carrier to offer such a service, which it calls Private Network Traffic Management. In addition to a mission critical class of service, there will be a class for public safety customers, including first responders, who need the highest transmission priority to enable communications so they can reach destinations quickly.

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