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The average global broadband connection generates 11.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic a month and a third of that is consumed by visual network applications such as video, social networking and collaboration content, according to the first Cisco Visual Networking Index Usage (VNI) study, results of which were released today. The Cisco VNI Usage study joins the Cisco VNI Usage Forecast, now in its second year. Cisco worked with 20 of its service provider customers, who shared their anonymous, aggregated broadband network usage data from the third quarter of this year to enable Cisco to see actual VNI usage and correlate that to its forecasts, said Doug Webster, senior director, Market Management, for the Cisco Service Provider Group. The data comes primarily from consumer connections, although there may be some small-to-mid-sized business traffic mixed in. "We decided to take another avenue," Webster said. "The forecast is forward looking, while the VNI usage index looks at actual usage." That accomplishes multiple things, Webster said, including verifying that the forecasts are on track, but also seeing how the latest actual usage data might inform or impact plans for network expansion or architecture changes. Read more -here-
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