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Cisco Predicts 13-Fold Mobile Data Traffic Increase by 2017 By Jennifer LeClaire February 6, 2013 11:20AM     Analyst Zeus Kerravala said he was not surprised by Cisco's forecast of an explosion in mobile data traffic. And it's not just smartphones, tablets and laptops. "More and more devices are attached wirelessly," Kerravala said. "I think mobile over the next few years is going to explode as we connect not just people and phones but a number of things."   Related Topics Cisco Network Mobile Data Internet Video Latest News Iran Hackers Target U.S. Energy Firms 7 ways To Not 'Screw Up' Tumblr Customer Service a Spectator Sport HP Profit Falls, But Outlook Soars Lenovo Soars Amid PC Industry Slump Worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, reaching 11.2 exabytes per month by 2017. So says the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. The anticipated steady increase in mobile traffic is partly due to continued strong growth in the number of mobile Internet connections -- personal devices and machine-to-machine applications -- which will exceed the world's population by 2017, according to Cisco. The forecast 's annual run rate of 134 exabytes -- an exabyte is a unit of information or computer storage equal to 1 quintillion bytes -- of mobile data traffic is equivalent to 134 times all the Internet Protocol traffic generated in the year 2000, or 30 trillion images -- 10 images daily from each person on earth for one year -- or 3 trillion video clips. Every Network Experience Will Be Mobile "With such dramatic adoption, we are rapidly approaching the time when nearly every network experience will be a mobile one and, more often than not, a visual one as well," Doug Webster, vice president of Service Provider Networking Marketing at Cisco. "This trend is a result of the seemingly insatiable demand by consumers and businesses alike to achieve the benefits gained when connecting people, data and things in an Internet of Everything." The projected 2012 to 2017 global mobile data traffic increase represents a compound annual growth rate of 66 percent. The incremental amount of traffic expected for the mobile Internet just between 2016 and 2017 is 3.7 exabytes per month, which is more than four times the estimated size of the entire mobile Internet in 2012. During the 2012 to 2017 forecast period, Cisco anticipates that global mobile data traffic will outpace global fixed data traffic by a factor of three. What's driving that trend? More mobile users, more mobile connections, faster mobile speeds and more mobile video. By 2017, there will be 5.2 billion mobile users, up from 4.3 billion in 2012. There will be more than 10 billion mobile devices/connections, including more than 1.7 billion mobile-to-mobile connections, up from 7 billion total mobile devices and mobile-to-mobile connections in 2012. And the average global mobile network speeds will increase seven-fold from 2012. Finally, mobile video will represent 66 percent of global mobile data traffic, up from 51 percent in 2012. (continued...) 1  |  2  |  Next Page >   Tell Us What You Think Comment: Name: Also Visit: iPad Info Center Billions of Bytes Mobile Device Now Apple Info Center TopTechWire.com Forrester Research Inc., Report from AT&T: As employees bring a wide range of devices to work, 54% of companies are turning to Bring-Your-Own-Device programs. The result: rising productivity, efficiency, and even morale. But can the obvious benefits justify the hidden costs and challenges? Find out by clicking here.  Enterprise I.T. 1.   HP PCs Aim for Flexibility, Mobility 2.   Nvidia GPU Boosts Citrix XenDesktop 3.   Security Alert: New Trojan Attacking 4.   Blue Coat Beefs Up Big Data Security 5.   Backing Up Is Hard To Do, Yet Critical

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