Global IP traffic to grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017: Cisco
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco's(NASDAQ:CSCO) Visual Networking Index Forecast Projects India to have the highest IP traffic growth rate As per the latest update, Cisco has released Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast for the year 2012-2017 . It revealed the information that the global Internet protocol (IP) traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017. India IP traffic (Fixed and Mobile) is expected to reach an annual run rate of 33.5 exabytes in 2017 which is equivalent to 8 billion DVDs per year. On a monthly basis, India IP traffic is expected to reach nearly 2.8 exabytes per month by 2017, up from about 454 petabytes per month in 2012. Global IP traffic (fixed and mobile) is expected to reach an annual run rate of 1.4 zettabytes - more than a trillion gigabytes per year – by 2017. In 2012, in India, non-PC accounted for 10% of the IP traffic, but by 2017 the non-PC share will grow to 53%. Portable devices, such as smartp...