“Busy hour” Internet traffic, (or hours of the day hour of day during which traffic is highest), is increasing faster than average Internet traffic. Busy hour Internet traffic increased 41 percent in 2012, compared to 34 percent growth in average traffic.

In India, busy hour Internet traffic will reach 23 Tbps in 2017, the equivalent of 19,540,000 people streaming Internet HD video simultaneously.

Metro traffic will surpass long-haul traffic in 2014, and will account for 58 percent of total IP traffic by 2017. Metro traffic will grow nearly twice as fast as long-haul traffic from 2012 to 2017.

Content delivery networks (CDNs) will carry over half of total Internet traffic by 2017.

Wi-Fi and mobile-connected devices will generate 68 percent of Internet traffic by 2017.

Nearly half of total IP traffic will originate with non-PC devices (including tablets, smartphones, and televisions) by 2017.

Fixed/Wi-Fi traffic will grow at a CAGR of 26 percent between 2012 and 2017, compared to a 16 percent CAGR for fixed/wired traffic.

In India, Fixed/Wi-Fi traffic will be 40 percent of total IP traffic in 2017, up from 38 percent in 2012.

Applications such as video surveillance, smart meters, asset/package tracking, chipped pets/livestock, digital health monitors and a host of other next-generation M2M services are driving this growth.

Asia-Pacific (APAC) will generate the most IP traffic by 2017 (43.4 exabytes/month), maintaining its leadership from last year.

The Middle East and Africa will continue to be the fastest growing IP traffic region from 2012 – 2017 (5-fold growth, 38 percent CAGR over the forecast period); MEA was the fastest growing region last year as well (10-fold growth, 57 percent CAGR for the 2011 – 2016 forecast period) in this category.

By 2017, the highest traffic-generating countries will be the United States (37 exabytes per month) and China (18 exabytes per month).

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