Cisco Expects 18-fold Growth in Mobile Traffic in Next 5 Years

According to the new Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2011 to 2016, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month – or an annual run rate of 130 exabytes – by 2016. 

Cisco reports that the expected sharp increase in mobile traffic is due, in part, to a projected surge in the number of mobile Internet-connected devices, which will exceed the number of people on earth. 


During 2011-2016, Cisco anticipates that global mobile data traffic will outgrow global fixed data traffic by three times. 


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