The Cisco VNI PC Pulse application is designed to show you the traffic to and from your computer (PC/laptop) and network usage trends for all users of this application. You can track your usage across 10 different content categories, to get more granular understanding.

The Cisco VNI PC Pulse application measures your daily computer use and enables you to track and evaluate your current activity and historical trends.

By using the Cisco VNI PC Pulse application, you will gain a better understanding of your online preferences and needs as a user. You’re also helping Cisco build a better understanding of what we all demand from our networks. Data from this application will help Cisco continue to create the network innovations that bring people and ideas together.

This application runs persistently and transparently in the background to measure your traffic. It doesn’t store any personal or identifiable information about you or the content you view (e.g., file names, Web history, et al. are NOT tracked or stored by this application). This application measures the amount of data you pull in from the Web and access from other networked resources to deliver personal statistics on how much bandwidth you consume on your PC/laptop, and for which kinds of content.

With Cisco VNI PC Pulse, you can see the cumulative traffic transferred over your connection, and how much of that traffic is video (one of the key drivers for global network traffic growth). Finally, you can compare your personal data against the aggregated statistics from Cisco VNI PC Pulse users around the world to see how you rate.

• Compatible with Microsoft Vista or Microsoft XP
• 1 GB RAM
• 10 Mb disk space
• PCPulse Application FAQs

Cisco respects your privacy and is committed to protecting any information you share with us. Here are the principles that govern our privacy practices associated with the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) PC Pulse Project (hereafter referred to as “Cisco VNI PC Pulse") for Microsoft XP and Vista Operating Systems, part of the Cisco Visual Networking Index initiative.

As part of the Cisco VNI PC Pulse project, we will not request or collect any personally identifiable information from you. The data captured from your PC is only used to create aggregate bandwidth volume data that allows you to assess your individual LAN or Wi-Fi bandwidth volume by content type and compare it with other global participants.

Cisco appreciates your participation in the VNI Project and shall maintain your anonymity at all times. Any data gathered is used only in aggregate form for the singular purpose of the Cisco VNI PC Pulse Project.