Cisco Projecting Global IP Traffic Growth
June 11, 2010
Posted by Michaela B., VeriSign
The numbers nerd in me just loves this recently released Cisco report that is an annual forecast of visual applications on the Internet. Here are a few fun facts (or at least I think they are fun, which may say more about me than the facts…but I digress):
The global online video community will surpass 1B [yes, that's B] users by the end of 2010. This number of people is exceeded only slightly by the populations of China (1.2B) and India (1.1B), making this user group equivalent to the third largest country in the world.
The average monthly traffic in 2014 will be equivalent to 32MM people streaming Avatar in 3D, continuously for a month.
It would take over two years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks every second in 2014. It would take 72MM years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks during the calendar year 2014.
Internet video is now over 1/3 of all consumer Internet traffic, and will approach 40% by the end of 2010. The sum of all forms of video will continue to exceed 91% of global consumer traffic by 2014
Almost 66% of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video by 2014
OK, so what do all these big numbers mean? It means video is growing incredibly fast. Which means lots of opportunity for .tv!
P.S. We’re taking nominations for a name for our new virtual country of video watchers. Let us know your entries.
Source: Cisco Projecting Global IP Traffic Growth « Watch.tv Blog
June 11, 2010
Posted by Michaela B., VeriSign
The numbers nerd in me just loves this recently released Cisco report that is an annual forecast of visual applications on the Internet. Here are a few fun facts (or at least I think they are fun, which may say more about me than the facts…but I digress):
The global online video community will surpass 1B [yes, that's B] users by the end of 2010. This number of people is exceeded only slightly by the populations of China (1.2B) and India (1.1B), making this user group equivalent to the third largest country in the world.
The average monthly traffic in 2014 will be equivalent to 32MM people streaming Avatar in 3D, continuously for a month.
It would take over two years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks every second in 2014. It would take 72MM years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks during the calendar year 2014.
Internet video is now over 1/3 of all consumer Internet traffic, and will approach 40% by the end of 2010. The sum of all forms of video will continue to exceed 91% of global consumer traffic by 2014
Almost 66% of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video by 2014
OK, so what do all these big numbers mean? It means video is growing incredibly fast. Which means lots of opportunity for .tv!
P.S. We’re taking nominations for a name for our new virtual country of video watchers. Let us know your entries.
Source: Cisco Projecting Global IP Traffic Growth « Watch.tv Blog
