Internet traffic to grow 3x by 2018 mobile taking over: Cisco
Annual IP traffic for 2018 may be extra than all site visitors generated from 1984-2013 Majority of traffic to originate from devices other than PCs for first time in history ACCORDING to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Forecast and Service Adoption for 2013 to 2018, international Internet Protocol (IP) site visitors will increase almost threefold over this 5-yr duration due to extra Internet users and devices, quicker broadband speeds and more video viewing. Global IP site visitors for constant and cellular connections is predicted to attain an annual run rate of 1.6 zettabytes – a couple of and a 1/2 trillion gigabytes in line with yr via 2018, Cisco stated in a statement. A zettabyte is equal to one,000 exabytes and precedes the yottabyte unit of dimension, the organisation cited. The projected annual IP visitors for 2018 may be greater than all IP site visitors that has been generated globally from 1984 to 2013 (1.3 zettabytes), Cisco said. The composition ...