This year promises to be symbolic for the whole of the Internet, since, according to Cisco forecasts, it is for him the greatest volume will be generated global traffic World Wide web in its history - one zettabytes, which corresponds to 1,024 exabytes, or almost one billion terabytes.
The company also noted that the next psychological milestone of 2 Zbayt will overcome already in 2019, when the number of devices connected to the network will be three times greater than the Earth’s population and per capita consumption of the Internet to reach 18 gigabytes per person versus 6 GB in 2014. The rapid increase in the volume of information transmitted experts associated with the rapid growth of mobile popularity.
This leads to the fact that in 2019 personal computers will generate less than half of the overall data flow, although still in 2014 they accounted for 60% . At the same swap and priorities with respect to the connection type: Wi-Fi and other wireless networks will skip 66% of traffic, while the percentage of wired Internet access for this indicator will be reduced to 33%.
The regions with the highest annual rate of growth of Internet traffic are Africa and the Middle East, where in the period from 2014 to 2019 it increased by 44%, as well as Central and Eastern Europe (33%). In the third place, analysts predict Cisco Latin America (25%), while in Asia, Western Europe and North America, the process goes much more slowly (20-21%).
Among the network resources more and more impact on the volume of information World Wide web provide digital content providers, such as online cinemas, video and music services. If in 2014 they provided only 39% of global traffic, then in 2019 this figure will reach 62%.
