Traffic from wireless devices will exceed traffic from wired devices by 2015. In 2015, wired devices will account for 46 percent of IP traffic, while Wi-Fi and mobile devices will account for 54 percent of IP traffic. In 2010, wired devices accounted for the majority of IP traffic at 63 percent.

A growing amount of Internet traffic is originating with non-PC devices. In 2010, only 3 percent of Internet traffic originated with non-PC devices, but by 2015 the non-PC share of Internet traffic will grow to 15 percent. PC-originated traffic will grow at a CAGR of 33 percent, while TVs, tablets, smartphones, and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules will have growth rates of 101 percent, 216 percent, 144 percent, and 258 percent, respectively.

Busy-hour traffic is growing more rapidly than average traffic. Busy-hour traffic will increase fivefold by 2015, while average traffic will increase fourfold. During an average hour in 2015, the traffic will be equivalent to 200 million people streaming high-definition video continuously. During the busy hour in 2015, the traffic will be equivalent to 500 million people streaming high-definition video continuously.

Global IP traffic has increased eightfold over the past 5 years, and will increase fourfold over the next 5 years. Overall, IP traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32 percent from 2010 to 2015.

In 2015, the gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will cross global IP networks every 5 minutes. Global IP networks will deliver 7.3 petabytes every 5 minutes in 2015.

Video-on-demand traffic will triple by 2015. The amount of VoD traffic in 2015 will be equivalent to 3 billion DVDs per month.

Globally, mobile data traffic will increase 26 times between 2010 and 2015. Mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of 92 percent between 2010 and 2015, reaching 6.3 exabytes per month by 2015.

Global mobile data traffic will grow three times faster than fixed IP traffic from 2010 to 2015. Global mobile data traffic was 1 percent of total IP traffic in 2010, and will be 8 percent of total IP traffic in 2015.

IP traffic is growing fastest in Latin America, followed closely by the Middle East and Africa. Traffic in Latin America will grow at a CAGR of 50 percent between 2010 and 2015.

Because people are using mobile devices more than their wired devices, we will see even more applications for smartphones and tablets for mobile payments, shopping, gaming, and other ways that these devices use location and context.

© 2011 MuniWireless. All Rights Reserved.

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Ruckus Wireless, one of the fastest growing suppliers of wireless products, today announced increased demand of its Smart Wi-Fi products and technologies and said it experienced the strongest quarter-on-quarter (Q/Q) growth within the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region in the company’s history.

In the first quarter of this year, Ruckus, one of the industry’s fastest growing wireless suppliers, grew by 34 percent overall in EMEA, with an 86 percent increase in outdoor and 27 percent increase in indoor Wi-Fi product shipments. The company attributes its success in this region to the influx of wireless-only smart devices hitting corporate networks, the previous investment in expanding its sales force, attracting new channel partners, and closing several strategic carrier deals.

“Wi-Fi demand and adoption has never been greater,” said James Calderbank, director of enterprise sales, EMEA at Ruckus Wireless. “And it’s never been greater throughout the EMEA region.” Gartner estimates the European wireless LAN market will more than double from 2010 sales of €478 million to €980 million by 2014.

Driving Ruckus’ growth is the increased demand for mobility, the use of media-rich applications and the exploding number of users armed with new Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as tablets and smart phones.

Industry analysts estimate that in central and western Europe as well as the Middle East and Africa, the install base of smart phones (over all mobile handsets) will double between now and 2014. In addition, mobile data traffic within each of these European regions is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 105% over the next four years.

Notable Q1 customer wins in the EMEA region included:

Accor hotels (Czech Republic)

Chaucer Foods (France)

Hotel Golf Peralada (Spain)

Local government in Mragowo (North East of Poland)

Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague (Czech republic)

Peermont Hotel (South Africa)

SHT Haustechnik AG (Austria)

St Josef-Stitf Sendenhorst Hospital (Germany)

Ville de Chatelaillon (France)

Wallingford (UK)

Wireless Suisse (Switzerland)

Leveraging the Channel to Scale

“One of the keys to our growth has been successfully scaling the channel,” said Calderbank. “As one of the only pure-play wireless companies with a Wi-Fi system purpose-built for the channel, we’ve been able to exploit the middle of the wireless LAN market which is almost exclusively serviced by solution partners.”

Year to date, Ruckus added over 250 solutions partners within EMEA, bringing the total number of VARs in the region to over 750. The company also signed eight new distributors in France, North Africa, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus and Israel, and has plans to continue the aggressive expansion of its partner base throughout EMEA and the rest if the world in 2011. “We’ve only really scratched the surface in this market with respect to our European channel network,” said Calderbank.

Much of the Q1 growth came from traditional verticals such as education, hospitality and healthcare as they work to address the influx of new Wi-Fi devices, more users wanting to connect wirelessly and the increased expectations for a more reliable wireless experience. Beyond the enterprise, carriers showed a strong and renewed interest in Wi-Fi as they look to build affordable capacity and coverage to augment their cellular networks, offer mobile data offload services and deliver faster and more reliable Wi-Fi access.

Calderbank noted that with the continued growth of internal and field sales along with signing more partners, the company is set to build on this success and gain a strong foothold in both the carrier and enterprise markets.

To help drive sales in this region, Ruckus has recently appointed eight industry executives to its European team. The expanded European team will not only help to boost Ruckus’ sales, but also enable the team to deliver a higher level of support to enterprises and service providers across EMEA, helping them build ubiquitous high-performance, reliable and easy-to-deploy wireless networks that specifically cater to their business needs.

© 2011 MuniWireless. All Rights Reserved.

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For many, individual tips to help you with your business are helpful. But how many of you sit around researching business tips regularly? I bet many more of you tend to go with what you know and what has worked in the past. I’m not saying tips aren’t helpful. In fact, my hot potato today is partially about multiplying the effect.

For example, delivering business tips to 50 of us at a time. Would that be better than 35? Or what if we could reach a hundred? Gee, what if we could get our hot potatoes out to entire groups of businesses?

Although we’re a powerful group, reaching our largest trade associations or entire workforces around the island could surely create more change than our small group.

Of course we know this to be quite easy. Many of us are already doing this with our own marketing messages. You just need their email addresses, right? The primary vehicle for reaching large audiences from email blasts and websites have become commonplace. Yes email, the killer app of the nineties is still the killer app for most.

But my business tip for today isn’t about using email. Those days are quickly waning. What I’m talking about is an understanding in the broadest terms of the impact the Internet has had on your business. Consider the role the Internet has played in your business and quality of life.

Now think for a moment where your business would be without the Internet? Without email, without PDFs, without online shopping, without online resumes, forms, banking or websites. Remember the thrill of sending a business proposal using an envelop and a stamp? Remember waiting 2 weeks for a reply. If it was positive and they wanted to learn more you could call them and follow up with a form to fill out and return with their partner or customer information? Does anyone even remember how long these conversations used to take? Does anyone remember when it was most efficient to just fly to meet the person and sign the contract. Of course we do. But the successes of the Internet are closely woven into the fabric of our existence. Do you remember you pants have pockets?

As our own Jeff Gray kindly points out, The Internet now carries more than traffic on your website. The Internet carries your data and your voice communications. Not just time saving but life saving information, every second somewhere. So when Jeff asks folks to join in the Hawaii Island Broadband Revolution, a lot is at stake.

Think of the impact Internet speeds could have on telecommuting from the island. Imagine working anywhere from anywhere. Imagine the impact on families.

Imagine stay at home Moms or Dads working from home instead of paying $300 a month for gas. Imagine these same parents taking care of their keiki and their kupuna instead of hiring professionals to care for their families at $300-$600 per month. Imagine these same parents saving another hundred dollars a month at the grocery just by growing some of their own food. One of my favorites is to think of a 3 day work week. Okay, you get the idea.

Now then, a couple statements to help you glean a tip or two in your business.

Statement #1 – Many consider the Internet to be in it’s infancy but growing quickly. It took television 12 years to get 50 million users. It took Facebook 2 years. The Internet is accelerating. It’s gaining momentum and users every day. It’s still sorting out job descriptions like webmaster, search engine marketer and web designer. It’s still reinventing the way we communicate across cultures across generations and around the world and it’s just a baby. It could even be considered a driving force behind the feelings of millions that we’re heading towards a global consciousness.

After listening to Sir Tim Berners-Lee make his second request in twenty years (his first request was that we all start linking documents on the web), my first bold statement is this.

Of 100% potential, the Internet has only reached 5%. Meaning, I believe the Internet will become at least 90% more effective at solving our world’s problems within twenty years.

Statement #2 – To create a global model for sustainability most experts currently believe our key indicators include food, water, shelter, healthcare and energy availability.

While these may be the current measurements of sustainability, food, water, shelter, heathcare and energy availability will all quickly become mere indications of our ability to effectively harness the Internet. 

At Green Collar Technologies we’ve started to help create a global model for sustainability which not only takes into consideration our offline sustainability practices but also our online sustainability. We’re engaging all generations but focusing on the youth to insure this happens at all levels well ahead of the Hawaii 2050 plan.

In these two statements I hope you’ll find a gem of insight you can use in your business. Remember what has worked best for you over the last ten years. Real-time conversations with your customers are happening everywhere from anywhere at once, right now. Carefully consider getting into that conversation and learning how this will impact your business and your community in the next ten years.

I’ll leave you with 2 bold statements from Sir Charles Darwin.

You may have heard this one,
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. ”

And you’ve probably heard this one,
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. “

Broadband is as it’s often referred to is an access speed currently possible and probably for rural areas. Boradband is also via for telecommuting and it’s wide-spread adoption could be considerd the corner-stone in a stronger digital economy for Hawaii Island.

I’ll do my best to keep updating these resources over time. If anyone is interested in managing a site with a “Broadband in Hawaii” focus, I’ll set you up.  

Broadband in Hawaii Resources

• Contact / Point person in the effort to proliferate broadband on Hawaii Island – Jeff Gray, Netcom Enterprises.

• Broadband Census Resources:

  • Hawaii Broadband Task Force web site
  • Hawaii Broadband Task Force initial report [PDF], December 2007
  • “Task force targets expansion of Hawaii’s broadband capabilities,” article, Pacific Business News, August 8, 2008
  • “The State of the Internet,” Akamai Report, May 2008
  • “17-member consortium to invest $500m in 20,000 km Asia-America Gateway submarine cable system,” Press Release, Telstra International
  • “Oceanic debuts turbo Road Runner in Hawaii Internet-service war,” article, Honolulu Advertiser, October 1, 2007
  • Federal Communications Commission Data on Hawaii Broadband(BroadbandCensus.com, August 9, 2008)
• June Meeting of Broadband Breakfast Club :  Spending the Broadband Stimulus - Technologies That Enable Universal Broadband Connectivity
• SpeedMatters.org speed test results for Hawaii (PDF) also visit SpeedMatters.org

Time to grab your yagi. The “man” is coming for your unused air “waves”. The “tax man” is standing by and the whole system is having technical difficulties. The FCC is directing the show and the advertisers are taking the lead role. What the hell is going on?

Ya know, the squandering of bandwidth here in Hawaii is at least as harmful as the Jones Act is to shipping. Do we really want to pay, to earn the right to pay, so we can use air?

Maybe just watch the video and check out the site. Even if you’re only “aware” of the issue you’ll make the right decisions. Let’s free the airwaves Hawaii.

What would you do with free wi-fi?

For many of us that work half our time online, it could mean greater energy efficiency in our lives. It would also effectively remove the first of five critical success factors for strengthening Hawaii’s digital economies, outlined over here.

Look for smaller chips and sensors to change the way use and reinvent the way we use wi-fi. For example:

An Old Favorite—WiFi— Preps to Disrupt Smart Meter Market
Today at 10:57 AM by Michael Kanellos

Get to know Wi_fi and you’ll be amazed at what it can do:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi