Health care driving mobile M2M traffic
Bits keep you fit. Some time this year, we’ll hit the point where there are more connected devices on mobile networks than there are people on the planet. That doesn’t mean everyone everywhere will...
View ArticleMobile data caps starting to shift costs to heavier users
The whales don’t stand out as much anymore. Three years ago, unlimited data plans accounted for 81% of monthly mobile subscriptions worldwide. Now, only 45% are unlimited, according to research...
View ArticleWiFi has huge role in mobile capacity management
There’s a reason Cisco bought Meraki. Four times as much traffic goes via WiFi as on mobile data connections, when users’ Android smart phones and tablets have the capability to do both. A recent...
View ArticleInternet video won’t flourish in a walled garden
Source: Cisco VNI 2012-2017 By 2017 Internet protocol video traffic will triple worldwide, according to Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index (VNI). It’s an annual estimate of how Internet and...
View ArticleDon’t predict African broadband growth with consensus and conventional wisdom
African traffic coming thicker and faster. Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) shows global data traffic tripling over the next five years, growing to a level of 121,000 petabytes per month....
View ArticleBuilding on a broadband lead
Blocking strategy. Akamai, a leading content delivery network provider, publishes periodic performance reports that ranks global Internet service by country. Its latest figures put Korea, Japan and...
View ArticleSupreme Court considering whether it’s a good idea to open up a new feeding...
Looks like one of those divided infringements. Let’s eat it. The U.S. Supreme Court finished its current session this week with a flurry of action, momentous and otherwise. Lost in the fireworks...
View ArticleWikileaks’ CIA dump plugs massive Cisco security hole
If you look into the core of the Internet or just in a typical corporate or institutional data center, you’ll see rack after rack loaded with switches, routers and other gear made by Cisco. A...
View ArticleBooming prime time video peaks will slam broadband networks over the next...
Three-quarters of all Internet traffic is video and that share will grow to 82% over the next five years, according to the latest update to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index, which is an ongoing...
View ArticleFixed, mobile North American broadband speeds will more than double by 2023,...
More and more people around the world will have access to faster and faster broadband connections, with speeds for fixed and mobile service doubling and tripling by 2023, due in large part to...
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