FD Insights Issue 9 | Page 21

Bigger. Faster. More Connected. If you feel like the world is getting faster and faster, you might be right. If these networking statistics from Gartner and Cisco are to be believed, it most certainly is! 4.9 billion connected things will be in use in 2015, up 30% from 2014, and will reach 25 billion by 2020. By 2016, wired devices will account Global Internet traffic in 2018 will for 46% of IP traffic, while Wi-Fi and mobile devices will account for be equivalent to 64 X the volume of the entire global Internet in 2005. 54% of IP traffic. Every second, nearly a million minutes of video By 2018, global fixed broadband speeds will content will cross global IP networks by 2018. reach 42 Mbps, up from 16 Mbps in 2013. Globally, mobile data traffic will The number of devices connected to IP networks will increase 11-fold and will grow be nearly twice as high as the global population by 2018. IP traffic from 2013 to 2018. three times faster than fixed In 2016, global IP traffic will reach 1.1 zettabytes per year or 91.3 exabytes (one billion gigabytes) per month Sources: - http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2905717 - http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/VNI_Hyperconnectivity_WP.html