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  • Cisco ups Prerna Suri to Asean communications head

    Cisco ups Prerna Suri to Asean communications head

    MUMBAI: IT and  networking major Cisco has promoted Prerna Suri as head of communications, southeast Asia as of August 2020. She joined Cisco from Facebook as communications manager APJC in March 2020, and in six months she has been pushed up the ladder and will be based in Singapore.

    Her job profile consists of leading Cisco’s communications efforts in Asean (south east Asia), a diverse region, with unique perspectives and opportunities. Her work includes collaborating with senior leaders, crafting strategic messaging, managing media relations, responding to crises and helping teams with their communications’ needs across Asean.

    Prerna has previously worked for organisations such as the UN in information roles, and in news outlets such as Channel News Asia, NDTV, and Al-Jazeera as a journalist.

    She holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a bachelor of arts in journalism from India's prestigious Lady Shri Ram College for Women.

  • Synamedia joins Alliance for Open Media

    Synamedia joins Alliance for Open Media

    MUMBAI: The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) has announced that Synamedia, the world's largest independent video software provider, has joined at the promoter level.

    As a member of the Alliance, Synamedia will collaborate with AOMedia members, which include fellow leading internet and media technology companies, to advance open standards for media compression and delivery over the web. Synamedia's video network portfolio features video distribution, processing, and delivery services, and solutions to power premium quality broadcast and broadband video, create compelling live multi-screen experiences, enable software-defined video processing and unify operations.

    AOMedia members include industry leaders like Amazon, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics, and Tencent.

    The availability of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1), AOMedia's open-source, royalty-free video coding format is a significant milestone in the journey to deliver a next-generation video format. AV1 is interoperable, open, optimized for internet delivery and scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth. AV1 enables more screens to display the vivid images, deeper colours, brighter highlights, darker shadows, and other enhanced UHD imaging features that consumers and businesses have come to expect – all while using less data.

    "We're thrilled to join AOMedia. As customers make more intelligent use of virtualization and cloud, we see the adoption of AV1 as a way to further our own goals of enhancing online video streaming experiences for OTT at scale. We look forward to working alongside AOMedia members to open up new possibilities to use AV1 for royalty-free, cross-platform online video across a wide range of applications," said Julien Signes, senior vice president and general manager, video network at Synamedia.

    "We're excited to have Synamedia as our newest member, reflecting our joint commitment to increase the openness and interoperability of internet video," said Matt Frost, AOMedia vice president of communications and membership, and director at Google. "Synamedia brings to AOMedia a long history of live encoding and OTT delivery for major content distributors. We look forward to collaborating to improve the quality and availability of streaming video with AV1."

    Designed at the outset for hardware optimization, the AV1 specification, reference code, and bindings are available for toolmakers and developers to download here to begin designing AV1 into products. Specifically, the release of AV1 includes:

    Ø  Bitstream specification to enable the next generation of silicon

    Ø  Unoptimized, experimental software decoder and encoder to create and consume the bitstream

    Ø  Reference streams for product validation

    Ø  Binding specifications to allow content creation and streaming tools for user-generated and commercial video.

    Alliance for Open Media

    Launched in 2015, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) was formed to define and develop media technologies to address marketplace demand for an open standard for video compression and delivery over the web. Board-level, Founding Members include Amazon, Apple, Arm, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics, and Tencent. AOMedia's open-source, royalty-free, video codec AV1 is a significant milestone in the ability to deliver a next-generation video format that is interoperable, open, optimized for internet delivery and scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth.

  • Airtel collaborates with Cisco to launch India’s first automated ethernet over fibre network

    Airtel collaborates with Cisco to launch India’s first automated ethernet over fibre network

    MUMBAI:  Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India’s largest integrated telco, today announced its collaboration with Cisco to launch India’s largest 5G-ready, 100G IP and optical integrated network designed to enhance network availability, capacity and scale. The deployment is part of Airtel’s initiative to build a 5G ready network that continues to serve the growing demand for high speed data services in the country.

     India is currently the world’s second-largest telecommunications market with a subscriber base of 1.17 billion. Cisco’s recent Annual Internet Report forecasts there will be 67.2 million 5G connections in India by 2023 (4.9 per cent of total mobile connections), and 66 per cent of all devices will be mobile-connected by 2023, (34 per cent will be wired or connected over Wi-Fi).

     Airtel’s network serves over 280 million mobile subscribers across 4G and 2G technologies. This new IP over ethernet over fibre network is the largest hyper-complex brownfield network transformation of its kind in India, collapsing multiple legacy domains to build a flatter, simpler and automated 5G-ready IP network for enhanced customer experiences. It integrates Cisco IP and optical solutions along with segment routing to more easily extend services in rural communities while significantly improving network availability and creating cost efficiencies.

    The simple, flexible and self-healing architecture is built with an agile, programmable and software-defined platform to deliver exponential mobile internet growth. It has already realized significant speeds with scale to enable new, advanced B2B and B2C services. The open standards architecture with automation brings in efficiencies for new and legacy infrastructure, eliminating manual touchpoints in a brownfield environment.

    “Airtel continues to transform its network to ensure greater availability and reach across India to deliver best-in-class mobile experience for our customers,” Bharti Airtel CTO Randeep Sekhon said. “Our ongoing collaboration with Cisco is critical in helping us to be 5G-ready, collapsing multiple legacy domains to build a flatter, simpler and automated network with more bandwidth to support internet services and the endless growth in consumer and business applications people rely on every day,” he added.

    “Airtel is transforming its network to be modern, adaptable and scalable to accommodate the phenomenal mobile growth in India,” Cisco Service Provider Business, India and SAARC managing director Anand Bhaskar said. “Together we are delivering a highly-scalable IP and optical network throughout India that enables broader mobile access to connect more people and more businesses who can do more with the internet."

  • The Key Areas to Apply Cisco 200-125 Knowledge and Skills in Your Career

    The Key Areas to Apply Cisco 200-125 Knowledge and Skills in Your Career

    Cisco stands out when it comes to high-end routers and switches, training and certification. It has played a huge role in the networking field to a point that we cannot mention networking without talking about Cisco. Prepaway 200-125 is a certification exam that validates the IT professional prowess in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting routers and switches. Cisco 200-125 is also a qualifying exam for the award of CCNA R&S certification.

    Cisco 200-125 Exam and CCNA R&S Credential

    CCNA R&S credential is the most in-demand networking certification in the industry and that is not going to stop any time soon. For candidates to achieve CCNA R&S certification, there are two available options they can choose:

    Option 1: CCNA Composite

    Here, you will only be required to pass Cisco 200-125 exam. It tests your profound understanding of infrastructure services, networking concepts, etc. in general, Cisco 200-125 exam is made up of the following key topics:

    LAN Switching Technologies

    Routing Technologies

    WAN Technologies

    Network Fundamentals

    Infrastructure Security

    Infrastructure Services

    Infrastructure Management

    Option 2: ICND1 and ICND2

    There are 2 available exams designed for the award of CCNA R&S credential. Both exams assess your knowledge in the routing and switching technologies.

    100-105 ICND1 – this exam assesses your prowess in infrastructure services, routing technologies, and infrastructure maintenance.

    200-105 ICND2 – the main focus of this exam is testing the candidate’s knowledge in iPv6 and iPv4 switching and routing technology.

    It is very crucial to be aware that both the two exams will not be available from February 23, 2020. You should plan to do them before the final testing date catch up with you. Nevertheless, Cisco will also release a CCNA exam to substitute these two retiring exams.

    If you have made up your mind to get CCNA R&S credential, then you have certainly chosen one option. I chose the first option and I have got CCNA R&S certification. Therefore, I will be sharing a lot concerning Cisco 200-125 exam which has the following structure:

    Candidates register via Pearson VUE website

    Time allotted for every candidate is 1 hour 30 minutes

    It consists of 60-70 multiple choice questions

    It is available in both Japanese and English

    The exam is expected to retire from February 23, 2020

    Cisco 200-125 exam covers various topics as previously outlined. Every topic is very important in your career because networking is all about implementing skills you have learned throughout the certification process. Today, I would like to share where I have specifically applied the skills I got during certification process in my career.

    Installation and configuration

    This is one of the major parts that I usually perform regularly because new hardware and software are always incorporated to ensure there is a high-availability of a network system in an organization. This skill is expatiated in the objectives and forms a huge part in 200-125 exam setting. As you perform installation and configuration in your company, you will also have a task of providing technical guidance to the people who are using the systems installed.

    User accounts creation and management

    As you prepare for Cisco 200-125 exam, you must develop a solid understanding of setting up user accounts, permissions, and passwords. In most cases, you will be required to set user accounts that access a section of the system which they get involved in. Let us take a case study; an account of the CEO of a company should not have the same privileges to the system as that of the Project Manager. The Project Manager is only responsible for handling various projects while the CEO is supposed to oversee the general progress in every department of the organization. Therefore, you must have profound knowledge to limit user accounts when it is necessary.

    Training users

    Before sitting for Cisco 200-125 exam, you always train to gain the required skills and knowledge. Training is not only meant to help you pass the exam but also to enable you acquire the skills to train others. In an organization, introduction of new technologies is often a tough task. You will have to train other employees on how to use new technology appropriately as it is going to be part of their daily career tasks.

    Leading networking team

    CCNA R&S credential is solid proof that you have an ability to lead. As a Cisco network engineer of any organization, you will be tasked with roles to implement and plan the future networking developments of an organization. In most cases, you will be leading a team of network technician to ensure that every milestone is delivered at the most appropriate time. With the knowledge gained in Cisco 200-125 training, you will surely offer the best leadership.

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    The CCNA R&S professionals are paid a basic salary that ranges from $89, 990 to $103, 877 per year.

    Final Word

    200-125 is the perfect exam for IT professionals to acquire relevant switching and routing skills. Every organization uses networking technology for various business tasks. Therefore, CCNA R&S credentials will open many opportunities in your career.

  • Synamedia appoints former Envivio CEO, Julien Signes, to lead Video Processing business

    Synamedia appoints former Envivio CEO, Julien Signes, to lead Video Processing business

    LONDON – 9thJanuary 2018 – Synamedia, the largest independent video software and solutions company, has appointed video software compression pioneer and Envivio founder and CEO, Julien Signes, as Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Video Processing business unit.

    Julien will lead Synamedia’s video processing business as the industry transitions to software-based encoding for broadcast, as well as for OTT, using either on-premise or cloud-based solutions running on commodity hardware.

    Synamedia’s products are designed to reduce the cost and complexity of video services while extracting value from investments in existing headends, video data centers and content delivery networks. Offerings include patented low-latency ABR and Smart Rate Control that optimize IP video processing to match traditional broadcast quality, reliability and cost.

    Julien is one of the industry’s foremost experts on video processing. In 2000, he founded video compression specialist, Envivio. As CEO he led the company through private equity financing and a NASDAQ IPO to create the global leader in software-based video encoding. Ericsson acquired the business in 2015. Since 2017, Julien has been advising emerging video technology businesses on strategy, investment, and helping them scale to global markets. He has also provided advice to Atlantic Bridge, a global venture capital firm and one of the early shareholders in Envivio.

    Prior to Envivio, Julien worked at France Telecom (now Orange) leading a team that worked on the development of MPEG-4, resulting in seven key patents for virtual reality and 3D graphics support required for MPEG-4. He also led the development of the first end-to-end software MPEG-4 implementation.

    “As video consumes an increasing volume of the global IP traffic, successfully monetizing the opportunities around 4K and 8K requires a flexible video processing infrastructure that can scale cost effectively. Synamedia meets this demand thanks to its impressive portfolio of video processing solutions with market-leading encoding and transcoding technologies including those originally developed at Cisco, Scientific Atlanta and NDS as well as the cloud expertise developed at Cisco,” said Julien Signes, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Synamedia’s Video Processing Business Unit.

    Yves Padrines, CEO of Synamedia, said, “Julien is one of only a handful of people to combine technical prowess in video processing with acute business acumen. At Envivio, Julien spearheaded the evolution of video processing from a hardware focus to the software and cloud-based video businesses emerging today. His deep understanding of cloud architectures for video processing will ensure Synamedia customers have access to the most advanced techniques for fast, efficient delivery of both OTT and live TV to their subscribers.”

  • MIB secy Amit Khare advocates self-regulation in media

    MIB secy Amit Khare advocates self-regulation in media

    MUMBAI: Making a strong case for self-regulation, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Secretary Amit Khare today said it was a better regulatory approach for India’s media and entertainment sector.

    With the advancement as well as convergence of technologies, the government would like to have more of content self-regulation by the sector, rather than the state acting as a monitor, Khare said allaying fears that the present government would strongly push for mandated rules and regulations related to content.

    Peer pressure will serve to make self-regulation effective and ethically driven, the senior government official said while taking part in a panel discussion here on co-creation of a favourable regulatory framework for new and emerging media that had been organised by a media house. 

    Khare observed that the media and entertainment industry in India is one of the fastest growing industries and the sector sector plays an important role in job creation and providing employment to more than 1 million people. Further, for every rupee spent in the sector, there is a multiplier effect of around 2.9, he added highlighting the importance of the sector.

    Pointing out that media regulations historically have been developed more from the point of view of the medium or platform of distribution and not from the point of view of content itself, Khare said the situation has led to legacy players in print and electronic media coming under the ambit of ambit of regulation, leaving unregulated some newer media forms such as OTT services.

    Stating that the government has an open mind on regulation, the MIB official divulged that debates are on within the government whether there is a need to regulate unregulated platforms (like OTT) or whether to reduce overall regulations in the traditional sectors too. “How much regulation is required and how is it to be done, is another matter that needs to be addressed,” he added.

    According to him, FDI policies are being liberalised to make India a more investor-friendly market, but monopolies should be avoided. 

    Khare’s fellow panelists included Alok Srivastava, MD – IoT, Southeast Asia & India, CISCO, Gowree Gokhale, Senior Partner, Nishith Desai Associates law firm and Vivek Krishnani, MD, Sony Pictures Entertainment India.

  • ThinkAnalytics focuses on India expansion, hires former TiVo & Zee exec Samir Narsiker

    MUMBAI: ThinkAnalytics, a developer of the world’s most-widely deployed TV search and recommendations engine, is strengthening its presence in India. Samir Narsiker has been appointed as the vice-president to head business development activities in India and neighbouring countries.

    ThinkAnalytics already has a global R&D team in Pune. Based out of Mumbai, Narsiker will report to Singapore-based senior VP – APAC region Alan Dishington.

    Narsiker is a seasoned industry professional with a proven track record. Prior to joining ThinkAnalytics, he was the director of business development at TiVo / Rovi. He has also held senior positions at Ericsson, Cisco, NDS, Dish TV and Zee TV Group.

    “We already have a substantial number of customers in India. With Narsiker spearheading our efforts locally, we are anticipating even stronger growth. In particular, he will be responsible for expanding Thinkanalytics Search and Recommendations platform and the leading ThinkInsight customer and video insight platform to local TV and video providers,” ThinkAnalytics founder and CTO Peter Docherty said.

  • Hathway launches GPON in Chennai, to invest Rs 500 cr in south

    MUMBAI: Internet service-provider (ISP) and cable multi-system operator (MSO) Hathway, over the next three years, plans to invest to the tune of Rs 500 crore in south India as part of its strategy to launch highspeed broadband service. It will be establishing data centres and other infrastructure so as to cover five lakh customers in three years.

    A senior company official told PTI that the Mumbai-based firm, which is into providing internet service through “Docsis 3” technology, has made commercial launch of the service through Gigabite Passive Optical Networks Fiber to Home (GPON Fibre to Home) technology. The company on Thursday announced the launch of its services in India with ultra-high-speed broadband technology.

    Consumption of OTT content from the likes of Amazon Prime, Netflix and HOOQ has been increasing and this would require high-speed dependable services. With broadband business present in 10 cities, Hathway has tied up with Cisco, Oracle, ZTE and Nokia for hardware and software components.

    Hathway Cable and Datacom managing director Rajan Gupta said, in Chennai, they had observed an explosion in demand (for broadband internet) last year. The average broadband consumption across the country is 45GB whereas, in Chennai, it was 90GB per month. It has just commercially launched in Chennai with GPON technology, he added.

    Noting that the incumbent operators provided broadband service through copper wires, Gupta said that Hathway would offer high-speed end-to-end fibre solution through fibre cables with the package starting at Rs 999 a month for speeds up to 150Mbps and 1000GB data unload.

  • Cisco & Jio to build world’s largest all-IP 5G-ready platform

    MUMBAI: Reliance Jio is collaborating with Cisco to further expand Jio’s existing multi-terabit capacity, first all-IP converged network.

    With this network, Jio offers a unique combination of high-speed data, mobile video, VoLTE, digital commerce, media, cloud, and payment services. It is the first network of its kind globally with the fastest growth to 100 million broadband and VoLTE customers, reaching the milestone within six months of launch. With the Cisco All-IP network, Jio will help deliver the vision of Digital India and transform the delivery of citizen services from transportation, utilities and financial inclusion to entertainment, agriculture, education, and healthcare in the country.

    Cisco forecasts that mobile data traffic will grow 7-fold from 2016 to 20211. Technology has become the biggest driver of economic development in India. Jio network has exceeded consumption of more than 1 exabyte of data per month, establishing its clear leadership as the dominant data network.

    The Jio All-IP digital platform is a result of co-innovation around product and services between the two companies. It is built on Cisco’s Open Network Architecture and Cloud Scale Networking technologies featuring IP/MPLS, spanning areas including Data Center, Wi-Fi, Security and Contact Center solutions.

    The All-IP network is built for the ever-increasing volumes of data, and its promise to shape the future of India, with end-to-end digital solutions and broadband for all. Jio has more than 185,000 miles (or 300,000 KM) of fiber, and built India’s largest cloud data center to build platforms for applications and vertical solutions. Since its launch, Jio has accelerated India’s monthly user data consumption 40 times, the highest in the world. With the advanced All-IP network, Jio offers a premium broadband service at U.S. $0.15/GB, making it the most affordable in the world.

    Jio’s infrastructure and CDN extends beyond geographical boundaries of India into Singapore, France, London, New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt. With this Jio has direct interconnect with global carriers and content providers enabling low-latency and high-quality experience for users in India.
    “We at Jio have been able to fundamentally impact how people leverage technology in their everyday lives by delivering inclusive and affordable broadband across India,” said Reliance Jio president Mathew Oommen.

    “As part of our journey in fulfilling the aspirations of the nation to be a key transformational agent in Digital Adoption and Leadership, Cisco has been a great partner for in building this highly scalable cloud centric All-IP Digital Services Network Platform meeting unprecedented data growth.”

    “We share the vision with Reliance Jio for an open, programmable infrastructure to simplify, automate and virtualize core network functions in order to digitize faster,” said Cisco senior vice president & general manager – service provider business Yvette Kanouff. “This network marks a milestone, transforming the mobility business in India by delivering a broad range of mobile apps and services from one common platform.”

    Cisco is building the simplified, automated and virtualized network platform of the future based on industry-leading software, systems, silicon and services. This enables service providers, media and web companies worldwide to reduce costs, speed time-to-market, secure their networks and sustain profitable growth.

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  • India’s mobile traffic will grow 7.4-fold by ’21: Cisco-VNI

    India’s mobile traffic will grow 7.4-fold by ’21: Cisco-VNI

    MUMBAI: By 2021, more members of the global population[1] will be using mobile phones (5.5 billion) than bank accounts (5.4 billion), running water (5.3 billion), or landlines (2.9 billion), according to the 11th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index™ (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2016 to 2021). Strong growth in mobile users, smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) connections as well as network speed improvements and mobile video consumption are projected to increase mobile data traffic seven-fold over the next five years.

    By 2021, Cisco projects mobile data traffic will achieve the following milestones:

    Mobile data traffic to represent 20 percent of total IP traffic—up from just 8 percent of total IP traffic in 2016 1.5 mobile devices per capita. Nearly 12 billion mobile-connected devices (up from 8 billion and 1.1 per capita in 2016), including M2M modules Mobile network connection speeds will increase three-fold from 6.8 Mbps in 2016 to 20.4 Mbps by 2021 Machine-to-machine (M2M) connections will represent 29 percent (3.3 billion) of total mobile connections—up from 5 percent (780 million) in 2016. M2M will be the fastest growing mobile connection type as global IoT applications continue to gain traction in consumer and business environments 4G will support 58 percent of total mobile connections by 2021—up from 26 percent in 2016, and will account for 79 percent of total mobile data traffic The total number of smartphones (including phablets) will be over 50 percent of global devices and connections (6.2 billion)—up from 3.6 billion in 2016

    The explosion of mobile applications and adoption of mobile connectivity by end users is fueling the growth of 4G, soon to be followed by 5G growth. Cisco and other industry experts anticipate large-scale deployments of 5G infrastructures to begin by 2020. Mobile carriers will need the innovative speed, low latency, and dynamic provisioning capabilities that 5G networks are expected to deliver not just increasing subscriber demands, but also new services trends across mobile, residential, and business markets. Cisco forecasts that 5G will account for 1.5 percent of total mobile data traffic by 2021, and will generate 4.7 times more traffic than the average 4G connection and 10.7 times more traffic than the average 3G connection.

    “With the proliferation of IoT, live mobile video, augmented and virtual reality applications, and more innovative experiences for consumer and business users alike, 5G technology will have significant relevance not just for mobility but rather for networking as a whole,” said Doug Webster, Vice President of Service Provider Marketing at Cisco. “As a result, broader and more extensive architectural transformations involving programmability and automation will also be needed to support the capabilities 5G enables, and to address not just today’s demands but also the extensive possibilities on the horizon.”

    Cisco India & SAARC managing director – service provider business Sanjay Kaul says,
    “As India leaps towards a digital economy, 2016 alone saw a huge growth in mobile traffic – by 76% from last year and, by 2021 consumer mobile traffic will grow 7.4-fold at a CAGR of 49% y-o-y. Much of this growth will be fueled by massive consumer adoption of smartphones, IoT, smart devices and use of machine-to-machine connections with an estimated 1,380 million mobile-connected devices by 2021. As the Internet of Everything gains momentum, we are clearly headed towards a new era in Internet communications, with M2M connections predicted to increase 17-fold at a CAGR of 76% y-o-y. The way we use connectivity in devices today will change businesses, government, healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, retail, transportation and other key industries.”

    Key India Findings:
     
    ·    In India, mobile data traffic grew 2.2 times faster than Indian fixed IP traffic in 2016

    o    In India, the average mobile-connected end-user device generated 251 megabytes of mobile data traffic per month in 2016, up 67% from 151 megabytes per month in 2015

    o    In India, the average smartphone generated 559 megabytes of mobile data traffic per month in 2016, up from 430 megabytes per month in 2015

    o    In India, the average PC generated 2,166 megabytes of mobile data traffic per month in 2016, up from 1,665 megabytes per month in 2015

    o    In India, the average tablet generated 2,228 megabytes of mobile data traffic per month in 2016, up from 1,671 megabytes per month in 2015

    ·    In India, mobile data traffic will grow 7-fold from 2016 to 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 49%.

    o    In India, mobile data traffic will grow 2 times faster than fixed IP traffic from 2016 to 2021

    o    In India, mobile data traffic will account for 29% of Indian fixed and mobile data traffic by 2021, up from 15% in 2016

    o    In India, 60% of mobile connections will be ‘smart’ connections by 2021, up from 19% in 2016

    o    In India, 93% of mobile data traffic will be ‘smart’ traffic by 2021, up from 62% in 2016

    ·    In 2016, India’s consumer mobile data traffic grew 1.8-fold, or 76%

    o    In India, consumer mobile traffic will grow 7.4-fold from 2016 to 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 49%

    o    Consumer will account for 90% of India’s mobile data traffic by 2021, compared to 89% at the end of 2016

    ·    In India, business mobile traffic will grow 7.1-fold from 2016 to 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 48%

    o    Business will account for 10% of India’s mobile data traffic by 2021, compared to 11% at the end of 2016

    ·    In India, mobile video traffic will grow 11.5-fold from 2016 to 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 63%.

    o    In India, the number of video capable devices and connections will grow 2.2-fold between 2016 and 2021, reaching 814 million in number

    o    Video will be 75% of India’s mobile data traffic by 2021, compared to 49% at the end of 2016.

    o    Video reached half of India’s mobile data traffic by year-end 2017

    ·    In India, cloud applications will account for 91% of total mobile data traffic by 2021, compared to 80% at the end of 2016

    o    In India, mobile cloud traffic will grow 8.4-fold from 2016 to 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 53%.

    ·    In India, 59.6 million net new devices and connections were added to the mobile network in 2016.

    o    In India, there will be 1,380 million mobile-connected devices by 2021, approximately 1.0 per capita for this region/country

    o    In India, 4G connections will grow 5-fold from 2016 to 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 38%

    o    India’s 3G connections surpass 2G connections by 2019

    o    In India, 2G connections will be 19.1% of total mobile connections by 2021, compared to 75.5% in 2016

    o    In India, the number of smart devices will grow 4.2-fold between 2016 and 2021, reaching 823 million in number

    o    In India, smart devices will be 59.6% of total mobile connections by 2021, compared to 18.5% in 2016

    o    In India, the number of smartphones will grow 2.2-fold between 2016 and 2021, reaching 781 million in number

    ·    In India, the number of wearable devices will reach 6.8 million in number by 2021, up from 2.5 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 23%

    o    In India, the number of wearable devices with embedded cellular connections will reach 0.8 million in number by 2021, up from 0.1 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 45%

    ·    In India, M2M traffic will grow 17-fold from 2016 to 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 76%

    o    In India, M2M traffic will reach 44.7 Petabytes per month by 2021

    o    In India, M2M will account for 2% of total mobile data traffic by 2021, compared to 1% at the end of 2016

    o    In India, the number of mobile-connected M2M modules will grow 6.2-fold between 2016 and 2021, reaching 91 million in number

    Key findings & milestones:
     
    1.   Rise in global mobile data center traffic
    ·  By 2021, global mobile data traffic will reach 49 exabytes per month, or 587 exabytes annually
    ·  The forecast annual run rate of 587 exabytes of mobile data traffic for 2021 is equivalent to:
    ·  122 times more than all global mobile traffic generated just 10 years ago (in 2011)
    ·  131 trillion images (e.g. MMS)

    2.  High growth for live video on mobile
    Mobile video will increase 8.7-fold from 2016 to 2021 and will have the highest growth rate of any mobile application category. Mobile video will represent 78 percent of all mobile traffic by 2021
    Live mobile video will grow 39-fold from 2016 to 2021. Live mobile video will represent 5 percent of total mobile video traffic by 2021

    3. Growth in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)
    VR immerses users in a simulated environment. AR is an overlay of technology on the real world
    Applications such as VR are adding to the adoption of wearables such as headsets
    VR headsets will grow from 18 million in 2016 to nearly 100 million by 2021— a five-fold growth
    Globally, VR traffic will grow 11-fold from 13.3 petabytes/month in 2016, to 140 petabytes/ month in 2021
    Globally, AR traffic will grow seven-fold between 2016 and 2021, from 3 petabytes/month in 2016 to 21 petabytes /month in 2021

    4. Global connected wearable devices driving M2M growth
    Cisco estimates there will be 929 million wearable devices globally, growing nearly threefold from 325 million in 2016
    Globally, the number of wearable devices with embedded cellular connections will reach 69 million in number by 2021—up from 11 million in 2016.

    5. Mobile data traffic offload to Wi-Fi networks
    In 2016, 60 percent of total mobile data traffic was offloaded; by 2021, 63 percent of total mobile data traffic will be offloaded
    In 2016, monthly offload traffic (10.7 EB) exceeded monthly mobile/cellular traffic (7.2 EB)
    Globally, total public Wi-Fi hotspots (including homespots) will grow six-fold from 2016 (94.0 million) to 2021 (541.6 million)
    Wi-Fi traffic from both mobile devices and Wi-Fi-only devices, together, will account for almost half (49 percent) of total IP traffic by 2020, up from 42 percent in 2015.

    6. Regional mobile data traffic growth (2016 – 2021)
    The Middle East and Africa will have 12-fold growth
    (2016: 7.3 exabytes/year; 2021: 88.4 exabytes/year)
    Asia-Pacific will have 7-fold growth
    (2016: 37.3 exabytes/year; 2021: 274.2 exabytes/year)
     Latin America will have 6-fold growth
    (2016: 5.4 exabytes/year; 2021: 34.8 exabytes/year)       
    Central and Eastern Europe will have 6-fold growth
    (2016: 11.1 exabytes/year; 2021: 63.0 exabytes/year)
    Western Europe will have 6-fold growth
    (2016: 8.8 exabytes/year; 2021: 50.3 exabytes/year)
    North America will have 5-fold growth
    (2016: 16.9 exabytes/year; 2021: 76.8 exabytes/year)
     
    Cisco Mobile VNI Forecast Methodology
    The Cisco® VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2016‑2021) relies upon independent analyst forecasts and real-world mobile data usage studies. Upon this foundation are layered Cisco’s own estimates for mobile application adoption, minutes of use and transmission speeds. Key enablers such as mobile broadband speed and device computing power are also factored into Cisco mobile VNI projections and findings.