April to June is a
critical time for many families in India with people taking exams, getting
results, and planning a vacation. For each of these important activities, the
network is somehow involved.
First, this is the time of
the year when students across the country prepare and appear for high school
exams. These exams decide their future academic direction. The network plays a
vital role in helping students prepare through distance education, online
videos, virtual classrooms, etc., for which there are many resources and
Just to give a number perspective,
in one Indian state there were over a million students who wrote Central Board of Secondary Education papers
online. And across the country, 1.1 million students wrote entrance education papers online for the field of medicine, which
is 41 percent higher than last year.
Students have the
privilege of accessing their grades, choosing their colleges and deciding their
academics right from their comfort zone—online.
Families are also planning
their vacations. Online access helps people choose from a variety of available
destinations, providing online booking and virtual tours.
Tourism in India is
economically important and is growing rapidly. The World Travel and Tourism
Council calculated that tourism generated $220 billion, or 9.6 percent, of the
nation’s GDP in 2016. There is another reason why tourism is so vital to India
-- it supports 40 million jobs, that’s almost 10 percent of its total
This is the time of the
year where Internet usage generally peaks for the above reasons. With more than
460 million Internet users, India is the second largest online market, ranked
only behind China. It is estimated that by 2021,
there will be nearly 636 million Internet users in India.
As the trend goes,
accessing from mobile devices is on the rise compared to desktops. As more
people start accessing the Internet through their mobile phones, mobile data
usage is increasing every day.
Take a moment and think
about the volume of data that is transferred in the above activity. Another
critical factor is how fast the data can be presented. CommScope helps to build
world-class data centers and building infrastructure for enterprise and service
providers across the globe.
introduced the first phase of its High-Speed Migration platform, which assists data center managers build
faster, more agile, high-density migration plants. We are quickly moving from
10- and 40-GbE to 100, 400-GbE
and beyond. The more data consumers and network users need, the more services
they expect and the more critical speed becomes. This is a global phenomenon
and one of the top challenges that data center managers will face. To understand more of
these strategies and the solutions which provide the necessary data rate with application
assurance, please join
us for this webinar on Friday, June 16.
We’ll discuss strategies to prepare for the upcoming demand. Register now for
this great event, and tell us in the comments what you’d like to hear.