API's (Application Programming interfaces) are available for application developers to create features that enables their apps to standout in the market place. Mobile operators are offering API's to enable their network cater to enormous diversity of customer interests. There are many organizations who offer API's including mobile operators and other businesses. These organization possess their own developer community who uses the given API's to develop their apps.
Network API's as the name implies is where API's use network based resources as opposed to only software on the smartphone or tablet. This provide developers with access to information such as location, messaging and device status. The benefit of network API's is the ability for developers to access all of the services without the need to maintain a unique connection to each back-end network element.
The info graphic suggests that there is a potential of 94 billion API transactions for a tier one mobile operator by 2016. Further, companies on average are releasing about 70 API's each week.
The point to note from the above information is that there is a tremendous amount of potential for network API's.
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