Areiso study identifies wireless bandwidth hogs

[Martin Manjak <mmanjak () ALBANY EDU>]

Good morning,

Arieso released a study identifying the portable/mobile devices that use
the most wireless bandwidth and predicts dire consequences if carriers
don't commit to increasing capacity.

Among their findings, they state that "1% of of all users now consume
half of the entire download data."

As more campus traffic migrates to our wireless networks, the increased
usage has implications for our monitoring and IDS/IPS efforts.

Press release: http://www.arieso.com/news-article.html?id=89 led to a

Analysis:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/06/dont-blame-the-iphone-4s-if-your-network-is-congested/
more insightful.
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Martin Manjak
CISSP, GIAC GSEC-G
Information Security Officer
University at Albany
MSC 209 518/437-3813

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