IP Connection Management

The IP Connection Management package provides services to accommodate automatic IP connection selection, application-assisted roaming logic, contention management for IP connections, IP connection monitoring and logging, settings management for IP connections, UI dialogs related to IP connections and managing PDP contexts.

• Application Level Roaming
  Application-level roaming (ALR) enables your application to roam to use the best available data connection while operational.
• Enabling Application Level Roaming
  Application-level roaming (ALR) enables your application to roam to use the best available data connection while operational.
• Establishing a connection with destination networks
  Destination networks, also known as Service Network Access Points (SNAPs) avoid the connectivity problems that are related to the access point being fixed for the duration of the data connection. With the availability of WLAN and other data bearers, the number of access points has grown considerably. With WLAN, the availability of an access point can change frequently. A fixed access point in selection often leads to a poor access point choice. Because the network environment is now more dynamic, you can have either a safe but slow connection, or a fast but unreliable connection. In practice this means that the application is either stuck with using GPRS or the user must continuously change the settings to point to the WLAN access point that happens to be available. A fixed access point leads to non-optimal usage of available connections, especially with applications that use long-lasting data connections.