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How Device Data is Maintained and Distributed

  Vendors   Community   Usage Information Description
Data Sources deviceVendors   ringMark   usageData Data from 3 distinct sources feed 51Degrees collation process.
Device, operating system and browser vendors.   Community data projects like Ringmark or Caniuse .   Optional aggregated usage information shared by 51Degrees users.
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  Collation   Publishing   Deployment  
Data Processing & Distribution collation rightArrow publishing rightArrow deployment

Source data is transformed into device data files used to perform real time device detection within the client web site.

Cloud services are not used for real time device detection guaranteeing performance and availability.

51Degrees staff continuously assess more than 500,000,000 data points weekly adding new devices and user agents.   Data files achieving at least 99.9% detection accuracy made available via cloud service.   Your infrastructure automatically downloads latest device data file.
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Detection webRequests

Client web site rapidly identifies the requesting device and optimises response.

Device information can be recorded for analysis purposes.

Fast, Accurate, Easy