Cisco Releases Staggering Web Traffic Projections
IP traffic will nearly triple by 2020, driven by more than 1 billion new internet users and 10 billion new devices and connections over the next few years, according to the latest update to the Cisco Visual Networking Index.
June 10, 2016
Cisco Releases Staggering Web Traffic Projections
IP traffic will nearly triple by 2020, driven by more than 1 billion new internet users and 10 billion new devices and connections over the next few years.
That’s according to the latest update to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, released this week.
It’s not just smartphones and tablets. The adoption and deployment of machine-to-machine connections will have a huge impact on traffic growth, the networking giant says in its report.
Applications such as video surveillance, smart meters, digital health monitors and a host of other M2M services are creating new network requirements and incremental traffic increases. Globally, M2M connections are expected to grow nearly three-fold, from 4.9 billion in 2015 to 12.2 billion by 2020, representing nearly half (46 percent) of total connected devices.
Video services and content continue to dominate the landscape. Internet video will account for the lion’s share of internet traffic by 2020. The world will reach a staggering 3 trillion Internet video minutes per month by 2020.
Security concerns are becoming top-of-mind, says Cisco. The company collaborated with Arbor Networks to help quantify the current and future threats of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. Their analysis suggests that these types of breaches can represent up to 10 percent of a country’s total Internet traffic while they are occurring. Over the next five years, DDoS attacks are projected to increase from 6.6 million to 17 million attacks.