Web's Growth Shows No Sign of Pause

Mobile volume will double every year through 2012, Cisco study says
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 16, 2008 2:21 PM CDT
Web's Growth Shows No Sign of Pause
A Jordanian journalist surfs the web site of the uncle of Jordan's King Abdullah II, Prince Hassan bin Talal in Amman on Thursday June 5, 2008. Prince Hassan has launched an Internet-based network aiming to fight cultural misunderstandings between the Arab world and the West.    (AP Photo/Mohammad abu Ghosh)

Internet traffic continues to grow at an astonishing pace, GigaOm reports. A study by Cisco Systems has found that world network traffic will increase 46% from 2007 to 2012. By 2012, the annual bandwidth demand is estimated to become 522 exabytes—a billion gigabytes.

Some more highlights from Cisco's study:

  • Global IP traffic will top 44 exabytes per month in 2012, compared to 7 per month in 2007 and 5 in all of 2002.
  • Mobile internet traffic will double each year from now until 2012. The US will overtake Japan in phone data transfers in 2009 (iPhone, anyone?).
  • Internet video traffic in 2012 will be 400 times the amount of total data transmitted over the Internet in 2000.
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