Cisco: 90 Percent of Consumer Web Traffic will be Video by 2013
Cisco: 90 Percent of Consumer Web Traffic will be Video by 2013
Posted 06/10/2009 at 5:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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According to Cisco, global IP traffic will skyrocket to a zettabyte -- or one trillion gigabytes -- by 2013, which is more than five times the amount of traffic today. Consumer IP traffic will account for a whopping 90 percent of the total, the company says.
Cisco also sees video leapfrogging mobile data traffic in the next four years, growing from 33 petabytes a month in 2008 to 2,184 petabytes (or 2 exabytes) a month in 2013. If true, that would mean mobile video would see a 131 percent annual growth rate.
Cisco, who bought the maker of the Flip video camera, certainly has a vested interest in seeing online video playing a bigger role, but potentially standing in the way of such a future is the increasing prominence of consumption based billing among ISPs. The future of broadband billing hasn't yet been decided as several ISPs continue to test market tiered consumption models.
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majorsuave
June 10, 2009 at 5:11pm
This means the Internet will need 300% more users and not a single spammer.
Defiant
June 10, 2009 at 9:35am
The ISPs solution to this will be more throttling..
"Ya! We are too cheap to upgrade the infrastructure so lets make it unusable! YA!"
Denis63
June 10, 2009 at 11:53am
instead of spending money to help the consumer, they spend money to higer them.
Stupid Bell... -Denis
Denis63
June 10, 2009 at 11:52am
It used to be, but the internet is what it is today because people don't exactly like going to a sex shop, so the internet grew so dudes could get more porn faster :P -Denis
nekollx
June 10, 2009 at 12:56pm
Faster, Harder, and with a 3G modem standard!
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smashingpumpin
June 10, 2009 at 7:47am
The headline prediction is right on the money! Though I wonder how many % will be HD Pr0n out of the 90 lolz.
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he's pwning with a trackpad? oh really? oh reheheheeally?
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