Cisco Global Cloud Index Projects Cloud Traffic to Dominate Data Centers - Seite 3

To assess cloud readiness, various fixed and mobile network attributes were analyzed. Average and median upload and download speeds and latencies were analyzed (median values were added this year to understand the variability of end-user cloud readiness within each country). Network performance characteristics are provided across each geographic region: Asia Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, North America and Western Europe. For this study, the following sample application categories were applied:

• Basic Cloud Apps / Network Requirements
  Download Speed: Up to 750 kbps; Upload Speed: Up to 250 kbps; Latency: Above 160 ms
  Sample consumer basic services: text communications (email, instant messaging), web browsing, personal content locker (non-multimedia), e-banking, single player gaming, social networking (text only), basic video/ music streaming
  Sample business basic services: text communications (email, instant messaging), VoIP, web conferencing
  
  
• Intermediate Cloud Apps / Network Requirements
  Download Speed: 751-2,500 kbps; Upload Speed: 251-1,000 kbps; Latency: 159-100 ms
  Sample consumer intermediate services: smart home, personal content locker (multimedia), online shopping, multi-player gaming, social networking (multi-media/ interactive), HD video/ music streaming, IM video chat
  Sample business intermediate services: ERP/CRM, IP audio conferencing, video conferencing
  
  
• Advanced Cloud Apps / Network Requirements
  Download Speed: > 2,500 kbps; Upload Speed: Higher than 1,000 kbps; Latency: < 100 ms
  Sample consumer advanced services: connected education, connected medicine, HD video chat, Super HD video streaming, 3D video streaming
  Sample business advanced services: virtual office, HD audio conferencing, HD video conferencing
  

• All regions' current average fixed network performance characteristics can support an intermediate level of cloud services today.
• The fixed networks of Asia Pacific, North America, Central Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Latin America can support advanced cloud applications.
• All regions' current average mobile network performance characteristics can support some level of cloud services today.
• The mobile networks of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America can support basic cloud applications.
• The average performance of the mobile networks of Central and Eastern Europe, North America and Western Europe can support intermediate cloud applications.
• Most regions have some outlier countries with fixed and mobile network performance results that are higher than their region's average cloud readiness metrics. For example, the mobile networks of individual countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore in Asia Pacific, and United Arab Emirates in the Middle East and Africa can support advanced cloud applications

*Concurrent use of multiple applications requires even higher network performance capabilities than the requirements for individual application support shown above. Concurrent application requirements are covered in the Cisco Global Cloud Index Forecast and Methodology, 2012 - 2017.