Why does all traffic go through WidSets servers?
Content can be modified to fit the mobile usage. Images can be scaled down and image format can be converted to work on your phone. Relevant content can be filtered from Web pages or xml documents. Our servers poll for feeds and content streams, and notify the mobile client only when there is new data available for you. The amount of traffic sent between client-server can be monitored on the client software or at WidSets Web site. Traffic limits can also be set. Normally (with socket-connection) WidSets client is only connected to WidSets server with a single connection. Pros with socket-connection • No extra traffic in the form of HTTP headers for each request • Servers do the polling of content and instantly push it to all interested clients • Only relevant data is sent to the client With http-connection, some polling must be done by client too, which increases the amount of traffic and also latency between new data as it is not pushed. Due to operator limitations some, users are for
