# Where local breakout is used

Local breakout serves any mobile service whose users are somewhere other than the operator's home network. These are the five uses we see, what each needs from the breakout, and how it is met.

## Roaming subscribers

An operator's own customers, travelling abroad, expect their handset to behave as it does at home: pages loading promptly, and services recognising where they are. Home-routed roaming gives them neither.

With local breakout, a customer abroad reaches the internet in the region they are visiting, from a local address, while remaining the operator's subscriber on the operator's tariff.

- **Who**: Mobile network operators and MVNOs
- **Needs**: Performance and a local address abroad
- **Breakout**: In the regions customers travel to

## Travel eSIM

A data eSIM sold to a traveller is judged almost entirely on how the internet feels in the country they have landed in. A service that routes everything through one distant country is slow, and presents the traveller to every website as being somewhere else.

Breakout in the destination region gives a travel eSIM the experience its customers are paying for.

- **Who**: Travel eSIM brands and the MVNEs behind them
- **Needs**: A local experience in each destination
- **Breakout**: In the destinations sold

## Global IoT fleets

Devices deployed across many countries often report to services hosted near them, or need to reach the internet for updates and time. Carrying that traffic to one home country and out again adds delay and cost to every exchange, and concentrates a worldwide fleet on a single point.

Regional breakout keeps each device's traffic in its own region.

[IoT and mobile data](https://netavo.com/services/iot)

- **Who**: IoT connectivity providers
- **Needs**: Short paths, and no single point for the whole fleet
- **Breakout**: Close to where devices are deployed

## Connected vehicles

In-vehicle internet is a consumer service delivered in a car that crosses borders. Passengers expect the internet of the country they are driving through, not that of the country where the service happens to be homed.

This is the use we have delivered at scale, and it is described on its own page.

[The connected-vehicle project](https://netavo.com/sectors/mobile-operators-and-mvnos/connected-vehicles)

- **Who**: Vehicle manufacturers and their connectivity suppliers
- **Needs**: A local experience in every country driven through
- **Breakout**: In each country served

## Private enterprise access

Not all mobile traffic is bound for the internet. An enterprise customer's SIMs may need to reach only that customer's own systems. In that case the traffic is delivered privately, over IPSec or a direct interconnect, into the customer's network or cloud environment, and never touches the public internet.

The same interconnection with the operator carries both kinds of traffic.

- **Who**: Operators serving enterprise customers
- **Needs**: A private route to the customer's systems
- **Delivery**: IPSec or direct interconnect, not the internet

## A use we have not described?

Tell us what the service is and where its users are. An engineer will respond with whether, and how, local breakout would serve it.

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Source: https://netavo.com/sectors/mobile-operators-and-mvnos/applications