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 (minutes, min), hours (hours, h), days (days, d), weeks (w), or months (months, m)

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.

Figure 4-5: Traffic Distribution by Device Operating System report
Traffic Distribution by Device Operating System report
Figure 4-6: Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report—download traffic breakdown
Traffic Distribution By Device Operating System report—download traffic breakdown