QoD (Quality on Demand) — Quality on Demand
What is QoD (Quality on Demand)?
QoD (Quality on Demand) is a CAMARA network API that lets an application temporarily request a guaranteed quality-of-service boost — higher bandwidth or lower latency — on a specific mobile connection for a limited time, such as during a video call or a live-streamed event. Instead of a carrier over-provisioning every connection all the time, QoD lets an app request and pay for a short, targeted upgrade exactly when it's needed.
More detail
A typical QoD request specifies a device (by number or session), a target quality profile, and a duration, and the mobile network temporarily applies that profile before automatically reverting once the window ends.
QoD is part of the broader CAMARA project standardizing network APIs across carriers, so an application can request the same quality boost the same way regardless of which mobile network the end user is on.
Frequently asked
- What's a practical example of when an app would use QoD?
- A video-calling or live-streaming app might request a temporary bandwidth and latency boost for a specific user's connection right as their call or stream starts, rather than the network provisioning that level of quality for every connection at all times.
- Does QoD require a separate integration per mobile carrier?
- That's the problem CAMARA APIs like QoD are built to avoid — a standardized API means an application can make the same request format regardless of which carrier the end user's device is connected to.
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