Paul, et al, Paul Kukubo wrote:
Is there any public analysis or research on actual bandwidth utilization by sector? i.e.. Agriculture vs say Banking? And web browsing vs. Infrastructure facilitation.
Who is using what bandwidth and for what?
Probably not information in the public domain but with the operators and its not broken down by sector utilization. Instead, its broken down by protocol utilization - a default feature of the tools used to collect this type of traffic data. The potential quick overview would be between the R&E network vs. everyone else. This will establish what percentage of the overall bandwidth goes to commodity internet vs. private apps/networks. The current utilization patterns indicate that the internet usage is mainly at the corporate level, with no follow through of users to their respective residential places. This is likely to change in the future but at the moment meaningful and profitable Internet usage is only from 0800 - 1800 hrs. In this respect, residential access would be a key focus for most operators as it would help them resell the idle capacity from 1900hrs to 0800hrs the next day. BPO's can also make good use of this capacity. Attached is a sample graph taken 2 years ago. The main difference today is that the peak time traffic has grown over 100%. However, the off-peak is yet to record similar successes. Regards, Michuki.
