Google Reader - we Still Need you (see my stats)!

   
Google announced last week that it will shutdown Google Reader on July 1st saying that "While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined (here)".

Is it? Maybe this blog's subscribers’ statistics can help showing how significant this service is! To sign the 10 petitions calling Google to re-consider click here.

 

What's Interesting? Top 10 Posts for 2012

The table below shows the Broadband Traffic Management blog's 10 most read posts during 2012, based on Google Analytics (which is not perfect, but surly indicative). The list is ranked by number of page-views, normalized to 100 points for the top item. It does not include top bar Pages or posts from 2010 or 2011.

This year (see 2011's Top10 - here) shows great interest in technical oriented posts, and market size/competition coverage. 

Many thanks to Doug Suriano, Chief Technology Officer, Tekelec, for his guest post, ranked #1, and to Bart Barton author of "LTE and Beyond" blog, reaching the 2nd and 6th positions.

Post (Click to read)	Score
[Guest post]: Policy and Charging: The Value of Independence	100
Diameter Gx Interface Tutorial	95
Sandvine Vs. Procera - Does DPI Need 100GE Interfaces?	80
[Infonetics]: Huawei and Sandvine Led the DPI Market in 2011	77
How to Block Skype in Cisco Routers?	73
Resource: Diameter Gy Interface Tutorial	70
PeerApp: “Caching is the future of Optimization”	64
[Strategy Analytics]: "Mobile video optimization is a hot topic for 2012"; Shows Market Landscape	64
AT&T Deploys Intucell SON Solution (Est. $55M Over 4 Years)	63
[Heavy Ready]: 2011 Policy Management & DPI Market Reached $1B; TEMs Gain Higher Share	63

In Case You Missed Some of my MWC News ..

 
These have been busy two weeks. The early birds made their announcements the week before MWC, other, usually the bigger players, flooded the wires during MWC itself with countless releases.

I was happy to see nice number of visits from Barcelona (see the chart, showing weekly visits to the blog from Barcelona, during the recent 2 years). Thank you!

To help you catch up with my posts during the recent two weeks, here is a quick access index:

• Product announcement: Sandvine, Ulticom, Dialogic, Movik,Kinteo, Comverse, HP, Skyfire, Broadforward, Qosmos, Infogin
   
• Vendor Integration: Tekelec/Technotree, Qosmos/Neuralitic, Procera/Aptilo, Procera/Tibco, Volubill/ipoque, Mobixell/HP, Openet/Bytemobile, Citrix/Bytemobile
   
• Deployments: Starhub/Mobixell, AT&T/Intucell, KDDI/Arbor, ClearSky/Snadvine, Nex-Tech/Sandvine, Hutch/Comverse, Telkomsel/NSN, Yoigo/Procera, Telkomsel/Ericsson-Akamai, Bell Mobility/Vantrix
   
• Wins: Tekelec, Oversi, Tekelec

What's Interesting? Top 10 Posts for 2011

 

The table below shows the Broadband Traffic Management blog's 10 most read posts during 2011, based on Google Analytics (which is not perfect, but surly indicative). The list is ranked by number of page-views, normalized to 100 points for the top item. It does not include top bar Pages  (the PCRF-DPI matrix would have been ranked first with 624 points) and posts from 2010.

No doubt - the most interesting posts are about M&As or IPO. Interesting entries are #5 covering, with some exclusive information, Amdocs' PCRF (since then Amdocs acquired Bridgewater); #8, a guest post by Acme Packet (since then they renamed the product to Diameter signaling controller) and #10, an overview of 3GPP's TDF facility.

ITEM	Points
[Calcalist] Rumors - F5 to Buy Allot for $450-500M (Jul)	100
[Globes]: Palo Alto Networks IPO Plans - Market Cap of $1-2B (Mar)	91
AT&T Detects and Enforces Tethering Policy (Mar)	79
Rumors: Akamai to Buy Cotendo for $300M (Nov)	77
Amdocs Launches PCRF (Jan)	71
Sandvine New DPI Device for LTE - Focusing on Space and Port Density Efficiency  (Feb)	66
Exclusive: The 2011 DPI CEO Panel (Jan)	66
[Guest Post]: “Policy exchange controllers - scaling policy infrastructure in LTE and IMS” (Aug)	55
Heavy Reading: Policy Servers and Enforcers Market to Reach $2B in 5 Years (Aug)	50
Resource: 3GPP Traffic Detection Function (TDF)/Service Awareness Overview  (Aug)	49

My Blog Stats - MS Internet Explorer Lost 30% Market Share to Google Chrome

         

I think the chart below could be interesting to some of you. It is based on Google Analytics statistics for the blog, and shows the share for each of the leading web browsing, based on the number of visits to the blog, since its first days in February 2010 to October 31, 2011. The numbers for other clients - Blackberry, Safari, Opera and others are too small to show.

The chart shows the decline of MS Internet Explorer from ~70% in the early days to less than 40% nowadays, losing it to Google Chrome which has grown from nearly 0 to 30%!

Argentina: ISPs Block 1,000,000 Blogs Instead of One

  

Last week we saw that Ofcom, the UK regulator, concluded that "All site blocking techniques can be circumvented" (here) and, as a result "the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will not impose website blocking responsibilities on service providers – at least for now" (here).

While the UK case refers to the complicated issue of copyright infringements, a new case in Argentina shows us that there are other consequences when ISPs are trying to block a single web site ("leakymails") using the simplest method of blocking the IP address.   

Pedro Less Andrade (pictured) reports in the "Official Google Blog America" that ISPs in Argentina "are preventing access to the IP address 216.239.32.2. According to the article published on the website of the National Communications Commission, we infer that this block could be due to widespread compliance with a requirement of criminal justice, which we believe should only affect sites identified therein. The blocked IP address linked to more than one million blogs hosted on Blogger, containing various authors. Unfortunately, the technique of blocking IP addresses implemented affects not only access to clearly identified sites for justice, but hundreds of thousands of blogs that have nothing to do with the judicial measure.

See "Blogs bloqueados en Argentina" - here.

(Pinging to the site at the time or wtiring this post shows me a different IP address).

See a similar case from Israel - "Israeli Police Instructs ISPs to Block Gambling Web Sites" - here.

Welcome China!

   
It is almost half a year since I started my Broadband Traffic Management Blog (January 30, here). This is my 224th post, and Google Analytics reports very nice growth in traffic to the blog. It seems that traffic management, DPI, policy management, Net Neutrality and other related issues are hot topic these days among vendors and service providers.

I am using a great tool - Excellent Analytics to analyze Google Analytics' information in Excel. An interesting piece of information is visitors' demographics - so far I had visits from 107 countries. The Top3 are the homelands of the DPI industry: USA (Cisco, Procera), Israel (Allot) and Canada (Sandvine) - together accounting for more than 50% of the visits to the blog. Nevertheless I had visits from Åland Islands  (population: 27,000), Aruba, French Polynesia and so many other places I wish to visit one day.
 

However - up to this morning - China was missing from the list. Today, at 3AM GMT someone from Beijing was my first Chinese visitor. Welcome! 

Since I am using Google's Blogger platform -this first visit today may represent further changes to Google availability in China - see "Google gets its license to operate in China renewed" - here - as it seems that Blogger is now available.