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cisco1408_cisco 29/08/2015 09:15 Page 1 Advanced Television talks to Yves Padrines, VP & GM SP Video EMEAR, about Cisco’s Video Network Index, its prediction of a Zettabyte of data within five years and how managing video in the cloud will be the only way to cope when there are three times as many devices in the world as human beings. We also talk to Luis Martins, head of cable access EMEAR service provider, about how Cisco’s new cBR8 cable access router will open the full potential of DOCSIS 3.1 to operators. e recently released our new Cisco Video Network Index (VNI) and we can see clearly we are entering the one Zettabyte era and 1ZB is one trillion GB. We can see that global Internet traffic is going to reach 1ZB a year by the end of 2016 and pass 2ZB a year by the end of 2019,” says Padrines. “So it’s a huge explosion of global Internet traffic; it has increased five-fold over the last five years and will increase three-fold over the next five. The drivers are broadband “W Managing the ZB era that’s a conservative forecast. “ “Eighty per cent of this traffic will be video up from about 67 per cent today and this is excluding any video file sharing on peer to peer. We think VoD traffic is going to double; it “Internet traffic is going to reach 1ZB a year by the end of 2016.” will become the equivalent of seven billion DVDs per month and about 70 per cent of IP video will be HD and 20 per cent in UHD.”