Vendors: Time to Update Presentations! New VNI is Here!

Almost all presentations of vendors offering Broadband Traffic Management and Optimization products use Cisco's Visual Networking Index (VNI) data to prove why carriers and ISPs need their solutions to survive.

So it is time to refresh these pages, as Cisco issues a new VNI report Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2010-2015) - here - with new, even bigger, exciting numbers!

"..the total amount of global Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015 and reach 966 exabytes per year .. The projected increase of Internet traffic between 2014 and 2015 alone is 200 exabytes, which is greater than the total amount of Internet Protocol traffic generated globally in 2010 ..By 2015, there will be nearly 15 billion network connections via devices .. By 2015, there will be nearly 3 billion Internet users .. By 2015, 1 million video minutes --the equivalent of 674 days --will traverse the Internet every second "

Nevertheless, "By 2015, global peer-to-peer traffic will account for 16 percent of global consumer Internet traffic, down from 40 percent in 2010" [in absolute numbers this is more than we have today, as total traffic will Quadruple]

See "Global Internet Traffic Projected to Quadruple by 2015" - here.

Germany: 300,000 Copyright Infringements Disclosed Every Month

  

ECO, the German ISP Association, announced that German ISPs provides the details of 300,000 Internet users that are suspected of copyright infringements to the content owners every month.

Nevertheless, "Increased tracking and expansion of legal download services led to decreased the number of online pirates since 2008 by more than 20 percent ..  In parallel, the number of legal music downloads grew by more than 30 percent to 77.7 million in 2010" (see chart below).

See "300.000 Adressen pro Monat: erfolgreicher Kampf gegen illegale Downloads" (here, German).

Recently, France HADOPI also reported sucess in reducing piracy - see "France Hadopi - Shows Success (while working)" - here.