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Mobile Internet data traffic to grow 13-fold by 2017, says Cisco


There are a number of different predictions floating around about how many Internet-connected devices there will be worldwide within the next few years. But regardless of those numbers, we can all be sure that mobile Internet data traffic is going to explode exponentially as well.


Cisco Systems has chimed in with its latest predictions through 2017 in regard to mobile data traffic -- and the forecasts don't hold back.


According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index report covering 2012 through 2017, the networking giant is predicting that global mobile data traffic will jump 13 times, to a rate of 11.2 exabytes consumed globally per month at an annual run rate of 134 exabytes.


To put this in perspective, the monthly rate for 2012 was 0.9 exabytes of mobile data traffic.


Doug Webster, vice president of Service Provider Networking Marketing at Cisco, explained further in prepared remarks that this projection equals "more than 46 times the total amount of mobile IP traffic just a few years ago in 2010."


He continued: With such dramatic adoption, we are rapidly approaching the time when nearly every network... [Read more]





by Rachel King via CNET


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