Cisco Predicts the Internet will be Four Times as Large by 2016

  • By 2016, Cisco estimates that annual global IP traffic will grow from 369 exabytes in 2011 to 1.3 zettabytes (equal to a trillion gigabytes).
  • Similarly, the number of devices will grow from 10.3 billion in 2011 to 18.9 billion in 2016. This amounts to some 2.5 connections for each person on earth!
  • There will be 3.4 billion Internet users in 2016 amounting to 45 percent of the world’s population. Broadband speeds will increase from 9mbps to 34mbps.
  • Average global IP traffic is estimated to reach 150 petabytes/hour. Cisco says this is equivalent to 278 million people streaming an HD movie.
  • Consumer video is a major growth driver with Internet video users almost doubling to 1.5 billion by 2016. The amount of video will increase to 1.2 million video minutes over the Internet every second.
  • While PCs accounted for 94 percent of consumer Internet traffic in 2011, this will fall to 81 percent with the increased use of tablets, smartphones and TVs.

No Comments Yet

You can be the first to comment!

Leave a comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.