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Cisco VNI: Mobile Data Traffic Forecast 2011

By On February 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

26X. That’s the amount of increase in traffic the global mobile internet is going to have over a 5 year span from 2010 to 2015, as forecast by the latest iteration of the Cisco Visual Networking Index.

The next lines and video do not belong to me, but they exist thanks to Cisco VNI. Interesting forecast. Who is too bored to read this, check the video at the end.

VNI Global Mobile Data Forecast Growth

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Cisco Visual Network Index (VNI)

By On March 14, 2010 · 3 Comments

Cisco Visual Network Index (VNI) is an interactive tool that can help you to forecast and analyze the growth and use of IP networks worldwide. Cisco VNI intiative includes distinct elements to provide a comprehensive view of the changing IP network landscape:

Cisco VNI Forecast is a model for the estimation of future global IP traffic growth.

This can help you to estimate global IP traffic growth using data sources like Application Type, Country and Region, Segment or Network. You can access this VNI [...]

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Cisco: Traffic manipulation with Policy Based Routing

By On December 5, 2008 · 3 Comments

Cisco Policy Based Routing provides a flexible mechanism for network administrators to customize the operation of the routing table and the flow of traffic within their networks. Policy Based Routing (PBR) offers many advanced features, including selection and forwarding of traffic to discreet Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instances, as well as Enhanced Tracking of the availability of next-hops. More about PBR you can read here.

Before we start this tutorial please download the topology file [...]

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Cisco: BGP path selection for outgoing traffic

By On December 1, 2008 · 2 Comments

Before going further on, please download the topology and the initial configuration files and have a close look into them (mostly into topology drawing). Also, this tutorial is addressed to people that know what is BGP and how to do a basic configuration for peering establishing.

For modifying the BGP automate selection of the best path, we have to modify some of BGP attributes from the table below:
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Cisco: How-to limit HTTP traffic on weekdays during working hours

By On November 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Some time ago a person asked me to set the HTTP traffic to 256 kbits during weekdays from 8:00 – 16:00, to limit “the fun” in the office while other are working. In theory I’m against this type of policy, because if you have a team of network engineers and they have to access cisco.com in the same time for information and other stuff like IOS download, then this will take a lot of time. Of course if you see that the productivity is going [...]

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