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