Internet Traffic to Quadruple by 2016
Enterprise Networking:
Cisco: The Internet in 2016, by the Numbers
By Jeffrey Burt on
2012-05-31
By 2016, traffic on the
Internet will have quadrupled, hitting 1.3 zettabytes, according to Cisco
Systems in its annual Visual Networking Index.
What does a zettabyte look
like? It’s 1 followed by 21 zeros—or 1 trillion gigabytes—a massive amount of
data coursing through the world’s private and public networks.
Driving all this growth
are the usual suspects: the rapidly increasing number of connected devices that
are getting on the networks, and the growing number of people who are using
these devices—everything from desktop PCs and notebooks to tablets and
smartphones—to get onto the Internet.
And these people are
sending and receiving more video over networks that have gotten increasingly
fast. Overall, the numbers from Cisco illustrate the world’s growing reliance
on the Internet, the demand for fast, persistent connections and the ability to
connect from any device at any time and from anywhere.
“We want to stay
connected, need to be connected, both consumers and businesses,” Thomas
Barnett, manager of service provider market at Cisco, told eWEEK.
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