Cisco Predicts More IP Traffic in the Next Five Years Than in the History of the Internet
The Internet is made up of thousands of public and private networks around the world. And since it came to life in 1984, more than 4.7 zettabytes of IP traffic have flowed across it. That’s the same as all the movies ever made crossing global IP networks in less than a minute.
Yet the new Visual Networking Index (VNI) by Cisco predicts that is just the beginning. By 2022, more IP traffic will cross global networks than in all prior ‘Internet years’ combined up to the end of 2016. In other words, more traffic will be created in 2022 than in the 32 years since the Internet started. Where will that traffic come from? All of us, our machines and the way we use the Internet. By 2022, 60 percent of the global population will be Internet users. More than 28 billion devices and connections will be online. And video will make up 82 percent of all IP traffic.