Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report

Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report overview

The Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report shows the traffic distribution based on the end-user device OS.

Use cases

Network resource planning—Use the report to adjust bandwidth, for example, based on the availability of a new device OS version, and the projected mass download of the new OS.

Risk management—Use the report to apprise customers of the number of devices of a specific type; for example, when the devices are known to adversely affect traffic in some manner.

Report characteristics

The following table lists the principal report characteristics.

Table 4-4: Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report characteristics

Characteristic	Value
Statistics type	AA Cflowd comprehensive application group (per device or per application group)
NSP Flow Collector required	Yes
Domains	Residential / Wi-Fi (ESM) Mobile Wi-Fi (DSM) Business
Report inputs	Prompt	Notes
	Domain	Residential / Wi-Fi (ESM), Mobile, Wi-Fi (DSM), Business
	End date	Calendar date or relative date (for example, two days ago) and time
	Granularity	Aggregation types: None (raw data) Hourly Daily Monthly
	Report range	Length of time to be reported, in minutes, hours, days, or months
	Days of week	Select individual days or click Select All.
	Hours of day	Select individual hours or click Select All.
	Node Type	Search using partial names or wildcard (%).
	Application Group	Select individual application groups or click Select All.
	Device Operating System	Select individual OSs or click Select All.
	Metrics	Download Traffic, Upload Traffic, Total Traffic or # Hits
	Percentage Threshold for Chart	Specify the threshold to collapse an OS into the Other category. The default is 5%.
Drill-down support	No

Example

The following figure shows a report example.

Note: A question mark (?) indicates that the device operating system version (major, minor, or dot) is not identified.