No, not Simon says, but Cisco says…
… and they are saying, that according to their Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast there are several IP networking trends we should expect – some highlights below:
- IP traffic will increase at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years
- The resulting annual bandwidth demand on the world’s IP networks will be approximately 522 exabytes2, or more than half a zettabyte
- Video on demand, IPTV, peer-to-peer (P2P) video, and Internet video are forecast to account for nearly 90 percent of all consumer IP traffic in 2012
- Global IP traffic will reach 44 exabytes per month in 2012, compared to less than seven per month in 2007
- Mobile data traffic will roughly double each year from 2008 through 2012
Note: A zettabyte is equal to: 1 trillion gigabytes; 1,000 exabytes; 250 billion DVDs, while an exabyte is equal to: 1 billion gigabytes; 1,000 petabytes; 250 million DVD
Hmm, did you get all that? Nice and clear? Good!
[Via: EETimes]