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“Experts consider Cisco's forecast to be the gold standard for Internet analysis. The annual study, which began in 2008, has historically been accurate to within a 5% to 10% deviation -- usually on the conservative side.”
Cisco Visual Networking Index Global IP Traffic Forecast, 2010-2015 UpdateThe Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) is the company's ongoing effort to forecast and analyze the growth and use of IP networks worldwide. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, Cisco VNI has become a highly regarded measure of the Internet's growth. This video features Cisco leaders sharing the latest results of the global research - device, user, network speed, and traffic growth projections.“These data highlight the need for ongoing investment in broadband networks, particularly fixed networks that generate and carry the vast majority of data traffic,” - Patrick Brogan, USTelecom’s Vice President of Industry Analysis
USTelecom Blog » Blog Archive » Cisco: Consumer Video Demand Driving Internet Traffic GrowthConsumer demand for video is the primary driver of global Internet traffic growth, according to Cisco's fifth annual Visual Networking Index (VNI), released this week. The VNI estimates global Internet traffic growth and trends and is used by many ISPs, regulatory entities industry and policy makers around the world."Cisco says the increase in traffic from 2014 to 2015 alone will be 200 exabytes, more than the total IP traffic generated in 2010." - Eric Savitz, Forbes
Cisco Sees Web Traffic Up 4x By 2015 To Almost A ZettabyteCisco Systems this morning said it expects global Internet traffic to quadruple by 2015 to 966 exabytes a year...or if you want to round up, that's close to a zettabyte. (That would be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, by the way.) The company, in its fifth annual Visual Networking Index forecast, also said that [...]"It is clear that the move to IPv6 will be critical in supporting the total number of devices on the global internet going forward and it will be crucial for service providers and enterprises to start migrating to IPv6," - Ed Horely, California IPv6 task force
Net-connected devices set to boomThe number of internet connected devices is set to explode in the next four years to over 15 billion - twice the world's population by 2015. Technology giant Cisco predicts the proliferation of tablets, mobile phones, connected appliances and other smart machines will drive this growth.
Last one! Crazy Internet stat #5: There will be 2 connected devices for everyone on earth by 2015. Half will be mobile - t.co/h1hco2w
Video and mobile are breaking the InternetThe Internet's growth will soar over the next five years. Click here for a look at the startling data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Internet usage is growing so rapidly that just its incremental, one-year growth between 2014 and 2015 will be equal to all the Internet traffic recorded worldwide last year."The study aims to give Cisco customers, which include AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications, a view of consumer trends while promoting the need for Cisco products, which handle the flow of Internet traffic." - Joseph Galante, Bloomberg
Cisco Says Tablets Will Help Internet Traffic Quadruple By 2015
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the largest maker of networking equipment, said Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015, driven by growth in smartphones, tablet computers and appliances connected to the Web. More than 40 percent of the global population will be online by 2015, contributing to almost a zettabyte of Internet traffic that year, the San Jose, California-based company said in its fifth annual Visual Networking Index report.
How the world will use the internet in 2015. Economist Daily Chart June 1st econ.st/lYoNaR
Data guzzlersHow the world will use the internet in 2015 RELIABLE data about internet traffic is hard to come by. One of the better sources is Cisco's annual Visual Networking Index, which was published on June 1st. Internet traffic, the world's biggest maker of networking gear predicts, will quadruple and reach 80.5 exabytes per month (80 exabytes would fill 20 billion DVDs) by 2015.- "On an hourly basis, the amount of data consumed will equal the contents of 28 million DVDs." - Arik Hesseldahl, The Wall Street Journal
Cisco: The Internet Is Like, Really Big, and Getting BiggerJune 1, 2011 at 7:35 am PT "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." That's how the late British writer Douglas Adams tried to quantify the size of the universe."Individual Internet usage is also expected to more than triple to nearly 25 gigabytes a month for an average user in 2015 from 7 gigabytes." - Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Online video watching to double by 2015, Cisco forecasts
The number of people watching video on the Internet is expected to nearly double by 2015 to 1.5 billion while the amount of video they watch on the Web is also seen doubling to more than an hour a day, according to a forecast released on Wednesday by Cisco Systems. In the company's Visual Networking Index, which is released annually and forecasts Internet usage over the next five years, Cisco predicts the amount of total Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, with video streaming..."According to Cisco, the four factors driving global IP traffic growth are: more devices; more Internet users; faster broadband speeds; and more video consumption." - Todd Spangler, Multichannel News
Video To Comprise Half Of 'Net Traffic By End Of 2012: Cisco - 2011-06-01 12:00:00 | Multichannel NewsVideo -- already the biggest component of Internet traffic -- will account for more than 50% by the end of next year and reach 62% by the end of 2015, according to Cisco's latest Visual Networking Index Forecast.
Cisco Predicts 15 Billion Network Devices in 2015By Grant Gross Wed, June 01, 2011 IDG News Service - The Internet will see explosive growth in connected devices and in traffic, with global traffic quadrupling between 2010 and 2015, Cisco Systems (CSCO) predicted in a report released Wednesday.
Cisco: Internet traffic to quadruple by 2015June 1, 2011 10:38 AM PDT The amount of Internet traffic crisscrossing the world will quadruple by 2015 as the number of networked devices surpasses 15 billion, according to a report out today from Cisco. Releasing its fifth annual Visual Networking Index Forecast today, the networking giant forecast that global Internet traffic will reach 966 exabytes a year in just four years.Aussie Net traffic growth to surpass global average
Increased adoption of smartphones and tablets such as the iPad are set to drive Australia's Internet Protocol (IP) traffic up 41 per cent year on year, eventually surpassing the average global growth rate of IP traffic, according to a Cisco report.
Cisco VNI: Traffic grows (to zettabyte levels), as does survey’s impactGuess what? Internet traffic is growing exponentially, according to the latest update to Cisco's Visual Networking Index, released today (details below). But what might be more important is the growing influence of Cisco's report, which is increasingly used as the go-to data source of choice by service providers, vendors and government officials to guide investment and public policy goals.Cisco predicts 15 billion network devices in 2015 | Networks Asia
By Grant Gross | Jun 2, 2011 The average U.S. resident will have seven networked devices in 2015, predicted Suraj Shetty, Cisco's vice president of global service provider marketing. In 2010, there was one connected device for every human on the planet. Internet traffic will increase by 200 exabytes between 2014 and 2015, Cisco said.
Cisco forecasts Zettabyte of IP traffic by 2015 - FierceCableThere will be nearly 15 billion devices connected to the Internet, generating nearly a Zettabyte (one sextillion bytes) of global IP traffic by 2015, Cisco's (Nasdaq: CSCO) fifth annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast claims. The admittedly self-serving forecast also predicts that there will be nearly three billion Internet users in 2015 and the average broadband speed will be 28 Mbps.
