# Local breakout for in-vehicle internet

Netavo designed and delivered regional internet breakout for an in-vehicle internet service offered by global vehicle manufacturers, working with a major international mobile operator. The parties cannot be named, but the problem and the design can be described.

## The service

The service gave passengers Wi-Fi in the car, carried over the mobile network. It was a consumer product, sold with the vehicle, and used by people who had no reason to know or care how it reached the internet.

The vehicles were sold and driven in many countries, and crossed borders in ordinary use. The connectivity came from one international mobile operator.

- **What**: Wi-Fi for passengers, over the mobile network
- **For**: Global vehicle manufacturers
- **With**: A major international mobile operator
- **Netavo's part**: Design and delivery of local internet breakout

## Why local breakout mattered

A passenger using Wi-Fi in a car expects what they would get from any connection in that country: sites in their own language, the services and content available there, and pages that load promptly.

Carrying every vehicle's traffic back to a single home network could not provide that. Passengers would have appeared to every website to be in another country, and would have been served accordingly. For a product sold on the experience it gave, that was not acceptable.

- **Language**: The right one for the country
- **Content**: What is available locally
- **Performance**: That of a local connection
- **Home routing**: Could provide none of these

## The design

![Diagram comparing home-routed traffic, which reaches the internet in the operator's home country, with Netavo local breakout, where traffic is handed over by IPSec or a direct interconnect and reaches the internet in the subscriber's region from a local address](https://netavo.com/images/diagrams/local-breakout.svg)

Traffic from each vehicle was released to the internet in the country it was being driven in.

## What we designed

Netavo designed local internet breakout for the countries the service covered. Traffic from the operator's mobile core was received over encrypted tunnels and released to the internet within the country where the vehicle was being driven, from an address local to it.

As a vehicle crossed a border, its traffic moved to the breakout for the country it had entered. The passenger saw nothing of this, which was the object.

- **Received from the operator**: Over encrypted tunnels
- **Released to the internet**: In the country being driven in
- **Addressing**: Local to that country
- **At a border**: Breakout followed the vehicle

## Who did what

The operator retained its subscribers and its relationship with the manufacturers throughout. Netavo provided the breakout and the secure termination of the traffic handed to it. The manufacturers offered their customers a service that behaved as a local one, wherever the car was.

[How local breakout works](https://netavo.com/sectors/mobile-operators-and-mvnos/local-breakout)

- **Manufacturers**: Offered the service to their customers
- **Operator**: Provided the mobile connectivity
- **Netavo**: Designed and delivered the local breakout

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