India To Have the Highest IP Traffic Growth Rate: Study


Bangalore: Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast 2012-2017 says India will have the highest IP traffic growth rate with 44 percent CAGR from 2012 – 2017.

Second is Indonesia with 42 percent CAGR and third is South Africa with 31 percent CAGR over the forecast period.

The global Internet protocol (IP) traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017. 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. This updated study includes global fixed IP traffic growth and service adoption trends, complementing the VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast released earlier this year.

Cisco VNI forecast says global Internet protocol (IP) traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017.

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.

On a monthly basis, global IP traffic is expected to reach nearly 121 exabytes per month by 2017, up from about 44 exabytes per month in 2012.

By 2017, there will be about 3.6 billion Internet users — more than 48 percent of the world’s projected population (7.6 billion).

In India, there will be 348 million total Internet users in 2017, up from 138 million in 2012.

In 2012, there were 2.3 billion Internet users — about 32 percent of the world’s population (7.2 billion).

By 2017, there will be more than 19 billion global network connections (fixed/mobile personal devices, M2M connections, et al.), up from about 12 billion connections in 2012.

In India, there will be 2 billion networked devices by 2017 up from 1 billion in 2012.

Globally, the average fixed broadband speed will increase 3.5-fold from 2012 – 2017, from 11.3 Mbps to 39 Mbps.

In India, the average broadband speed will grow 3.5-fold from 2012 to 2017, to reach 7 Mbps from 1.9 Mbps in 2012.

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