Internet communications firm Cisco Systems is predicting that global internet traffic will more than quadruple by 2014, thanks to a surge in use of video online.
The company, based in San Jose, Calif., said video likely will surpass 91 percent of global communications in consumer internet traffic by 2014. The jump in internet traffic is being fueled by Improvements in bandwidth capacity and internet speeds and the popularity of high-definition television.
Cisco said the almost 64 exabytes of global, monthly internet traffic forecast for 2014 is equivalent to 16 billion DVDs, 21 trillion MP3s or 399 quadrillion text messages.
The highest IP-traffic generating areas will be North America (19.0 exabytes per month), Asia Pacific (17.4 exabytes per month), Western Europe (16.2 exabytes per month) and Japan (4.3 exabytes per month).
The fastest growing IP-traffic regions are Latin America (51 percent compound annual growth rate), the Middle East and Africa and Central Europe.
The company also expects that global Internet video traffic will surpass global peer-to-peer traffic by the end of 2010.
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but will there be enough infrastructure bandwidth capable of handling all that. from what i have seen we in the US are woefully behind on our physical internet 'piping'
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