India To Have the Highest IP Traffic Growth Rate: Study
Globally, the average fixed broadband speed grew 30 percent from 2011 – 2012, from 8.7 Mbps to 11.3 Mbps.
Global network users will generate 3 trillion Internet video minutes per month, that is 6 million years of video per month, or 1.2 million video minutes every second or more than two years’ worth of video every second.
Globally, there will be nearly 2 billion Internet video users (excluding mobile-only) by 2017, up from 1 billion Internet video users in 2012.
In India, there will be 113 million Internet video users (excluding mobile-only) in 2017, up from 16 million in 2012.
In 2012, in India, non-PC accounted for 10 percent of the IP traffic, but by 2017 the Non-PC share will grow to 53 percent. Portable devices, such as Smartphones and tablets will contribute 40 percent to IP traffic in 2017 up from 3 percent in 2012; TVs will contribute 10 percent, while machine-to-machine (M2M) modules will contribute 3 percent of the entire IP traffic in 2017.
As global service providers build out the Next Generation Internet, nearly half of the world’s population will have network and Internet access by 2017.
In India, the average Internet household will generate 35.9 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month in 2017, up 279 percent from 9.5 gigabytes per month in 2012, a CAGR of 31 percent.
By 2017, annual global IP traffic will reach 1.4 zettabytes (23 percent CAGR from 2012 to 2017). – A zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes.
In India, by 2017, annual global IP traffic will reach 33.5 exabytes (44 percent CAGR from 2012 to 2017).
By 2017, more traffic will traverse global networks than all prior “Internet years” combined:
1984 – 2012: 1.2 zettabytes.
2017 Forecast: 1.4 zettabytes.
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