Collect evidence of online subscriber activities to comply with regulations

Why Chronos

Current Mobile Device Use

In 2024, mobile devices are the main source of global internet traffic, making up 55.7% of all online activity. This trend is particularly striking in Africa, where mobile devices account for an impressive 73.6% of internet traffic. South Africa leads the way with an even higher figure of 77.97%. In comparison, North America has a lower share at 45%, while Europe is around 52%. This shows that Africa significantly exceeds the global average.

Future Mobile Device Use
Looking ahead, mobile internet usage is expected to grow rapidly each year as more and more people engage in online activities using their smart devices.

Achieving Regulatory Compliance
To comply with internet activity record-keeping legislation and cope effectively with logging the surge of data growth, Pharos has created a specialised IP log management system designed for network operators: Chronos provides regulatory compliance, carrier-grade availability, minimal setup and running costs, and high scalability for your future logging needs.

Sources of Statistics:

• Sunil Gill, “Internet Traffic From Mobile Devices Stats 2024,” Priori Data, August 23, 2024, https://prioridata.com/data/mobile-internet-traffic/
• Daniel Ruby, “69 Mobile Internet Traffic Statistics for 2024 (Worldwide Usage),” DemandSage, January 22, 2024, https://www.demandsage.com/mobile-internet-traffic/

The system ensures compliance, reduces costs, and scales massively:

• Ensure Compliance through:
• Regulatory Compliance: Chronos makes your network compliant with regulations that require you to log, store, and provide (on request) activity records containing the internet destinations that subscribers have accessed using your network.
• Extreme Performance: Chronos is designed to be a powerful IP log management system. It handles the massive task of consistent collecting, processing, and storing billions of internet usage records—in near real-time for millions of concurrent network users.
• Trustworthy Evidence through Accurate Records: Chronos uses live subscriber activity network feeds to record internet activity and timestamps records precisely using servers that are synchronised using NTP. And Tamper-Proof Records: Chronos guards activity records with blockchain-inspired security and stores them in its protected time-series database before archiving them to long-term storage.
• Reduce Costs: Chronos stores each subscriber activity record it processes in the smallest possible space. It does so by encoding information in a space-efficient manner before storing events in its database. This slashes the cost of mass storage space you need to archive the massive volume of network usage records generated each day.
• Scale Massively: Chronos is designed to scale to accommodate your future demands for data traffic growth. Its modular design enables you to horizontally scale the system by adding additional servers. Chronos performs parallel processing by distributing its workload across all servers in the Chronos cluster, which provides you with predictable scaling and high performance.