Networking giant Cisco today released the results of the Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013. The Forecast projects that global mobile traffic will exceed two exabytes per month by 2013 (an exabyte is equal to 1 billion gigabytes, 1,000 petabytes or 250 million DVDs). It took global mobile data traffic to reach one exabyte per month in half the time that fixed data traffic did.
Key findings included that nearly 64% of the world’s mobile traffic will be video by 2013, with mobile video expected to grow at a CAGR of 150% between 2008 and 2013. Mobile broadband handsets with higher than 3G speeds and laptop air or data cards will constitute more than 80 % of global mobile traffic by 2013.
Suraj Shetty, vice president of service provider marketing at Cisco noted that, “The Cisco Visual Networking Index Mobile Forecast findings reflect the trend that consumers will use a variety of services, applications and devices to drive an increase in mobile traffic we’re predicting. The evolving 4G mobile Internet transformation is further diversifying how people access and experience the Internet and is causing an undeniable surge in bandwidth growth.”
More information: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_021009d.html