System and method for offloading traffic from a cellular network to a broadcast network

A system for offloading traffic from a cellular network to a broadcast network, said system comprising:

• a converged cellular core network that comprises a packet inspection and steering unit that
• monitors the traffic between the converged cellular core network and a cellular base station to identify at least one commonly consumed content stream for offloading the traffic;
• determines whether the at least one commonly consumed content stream being consumed over unicast;
• determines whether at least one converged User Equipment (UE) that receives the at least one commonly consumed content stream is in a region that comprises adequate coverage area and adequate spare capacity exists in a broadcast pipe in a unidirectional downlink network for offloading broadcast traffic if the at least one commonly consumed content stream being consumed over the unicast;
• and
• offloads the broadcast traffic from the cellular network to the broadcast network over the unidirectional downlink network based on an offload signal that is received from an analytics engine, wherein the analytics engine indicates the packet inspection and steering unit to offload the at least one commonly consumed content stream as a broadcast payload in the unidirectional downlink network by
• determining if the adequate coverage area and the adequate spare capacity in the region of interest are exists in the unidirectional downlink network;
• and
• determining if a number of UEs are consuming the at least one commonly consumed content stream within the adequate coverage area and the adequate spare capacity in the region of interest, thereby reducing an overall bandwidth required to transfer the at least one commonly consumed content stream to the number of UEs.