With more and more people getting smartphones and tablets, networks are facing problem how to handle all that traffic. At the moment, smartphones represent 12% of total global handsets in use, while making for over 82% of total global handset traffic. And it’s just going to be worse:
- Aggregate smartphone traffic in 2016 will be 50 times greater than it was in 2011.
- Tablets generate 3.4x more mobile traffic than smartphones.
- Mobile connected tablets will generate almost as much traffic in 2016 as the entire global mobile network in 2012.
- There will be 8.6x more mobile data traffic in 2016 compared to 2012 – an astounding 71% CAGR.
The key to solve this problem is optimization, as you’re about to find out from the following infographic prepared by the good folks of Dialogic. Here comes…

