The infographic below shows the worldwide Internet user statistics based on continents. The highest number of users are in Asia followed by Europe, Africa, America and least number of users from Australia and Middle East. More than 4.79 billion people are using the Internet worldwide – close to 60 percent of the world’s total global population and this number is still continuing to grow at over 9 million new users added each day. Most of the Internet users are using mobile Internet over 4G and LTE.

Also, the pandemic situation has led to more people opting for Internet connections at home resulting in increasing the number of broadband and Internet connections globally. All of these provide a tremendous opportunity for Internet service providers to customize their Internet offerings according to these new consumer trends and demand to grow their networks.

Jaze Networks enables ISPs to scale out and manage their operations without increasing workload and ensure operational efficiency and profitability.

Internet usage at homes on broadband connections is increasing due to this current pandemic situation created by Covid-19. People are stuck at home and are accessing more entertainment sources such as video streaming as shown in the infographic video. Streaming traffic has increased more compared to the last year and this trend looks to continue further. Connected devices in homes are also increasing as more and more devices become Internet enabled today. Broadband connection has become an important resource for households as people are working from home as well as using it for streaming entertainment content from Netflix, YouTube and many other online platforms.

Data usage for 4K streaming consumes data at about 12 Mbps on YouTube. HD movies on Netflix consume about 3GB per hour. More people are streaming on large screens with smart TVs and other Smart dongles such as Fire Stick, Chromecast and OTT boxes.

With these statistics it is clear that the need for Internet bandwidth is going to increase in the future with more and more data being consumed for streaming at higher resolutions. Today, ISPs can peer with YouTube and Netflix at peering points as other PoPs with Cache servers hosted by the content providers. ISPs need to monitor data usage to shape traffic policies and data limits on their Internet plans and also lower transit costs.

Jaze ISP Manager provides detailed usage reports and analytics of data usage to help you design the right Internet plans for your customers.

Bharat Net is an initiative started by the Prime Minister in India to connect rural and backward areas with Internet connections. It has been planned to provide optical fiber line for bridging the gap in the lack of connectivity in rural areas and also for providing broadband to all gram panchayats to empower the rural regions which will result in the growth of the Indian economy.

The Digital India campaign has created many changes resulting in the surge of Internet users in rural areas for the past few years with more than 1.5 lakh gram panchayats served with Internet connections in phase-1. Now in phase-2, the NDA government is planning to provide more than one lakh gram panchayats with broadband connections with more than 27,000cr of investment. Phase 3, has been planned in the future to make the network completely redundant and fault tolerant with completion planned in 2023.

Managing networks in a scalable and automated manner can become complicated as the network grows and Jaze ISP Manager helps Internet service providers and Wi-Fi HotSpot operators to manage their entire business operations from end-to-end. Jaze ISP Manager is completely “Made is India” to envision Digital India.

The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted normal everyday activity to a major extent globally. The consumption of Internet and broadband connections are in surge all over the world while all the people are stuck in their homes without outdoor activity or entertainment. People are spending more of their time online for both professional and entertainment activities.

Demand for broadband Internet connections is also rising for online video conferencing, playing video games, schooling, streaming movies and videos online, social media usage and many other online activities. Internet usage is up almost 50%, when compared to before the pandemic in many countries and all our daily activities have moved online.

 ISPs should assure their customers of a smooth broadband experience by ensuring enough capacity to handle the increased load on their networks and upstream links. Jaze ISP Manager helps Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to scale services and provide a good experience to subscribers with support for RADIUS based policies across multiple BRAS vendors such as Cisco, Juniper and Huawei for scaling to support more subscribers and higher bandwidth.