By 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte, (a trillion GB), according to a new forecast of IP traffic (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-481360_ns827_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html). What is driving this growth is video? Cisco forecasts that 90 percent of consumer IP traffic (which makes up the majority of total IP traffic) will be video in 2013. Cisco also predicts that mobile data traffic will also be overtaken by video, reaching 64 percent of total mobile IP traffic. The devices expected to drive this 131 percent annual growth in mobile data are not so much current 3G mobile handsets, but next-gen “3.5G and above, as well as laptops and other portable computers .
As per Cisco, by 2013, Internet TV will be over 4 percent of consumer Internet traffic, and ambient video will be 8 percent of consumer Internet traffic. Live TV has gained substantial ground in the past few years: globally, P2P TV is now slightly over 7 percent of overall P2P traffic.
This may be an overstatement by Cisco, poised to supply the market with ever potent network devices, but just to put the growth in context, a single high-end phone (such as an iPhone or Blackberry) generates more data traffic than 30 basic-feature cell phones. and a laptop aircard generates more data traffic than 450 basic-feature cell phones.
So, it seems that Cisco sees a bright future in IP networks, let’s join the party and send this blog using an aircard