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Cisco predicts video will represent 75% of global mobile data traffic by 2020

Cisco’s latest annual Visual Networking Index forecast (VNI) has revealed that the growth of mobile data traffic is faster than ever, with video taking up an even larger share.

In the 2016 VNI, Cisco calculates that by 2020 total traffic will reach an annual run rate of 30.6 Exabytes per month, the equivalent of what is stored on 7,641 million DVDs or seven trillion online video clips. Moreover, the forecasted incremental amount of traffic being added to the mobile Internet, between 2019 and 2020, is expected to hit 8.9 Exabytes per month, more than two times the estimated size of the entire mobile Internet in 2015.

At the heart of this explosion is mobile video, which will have the highest growth rate of any mobile application. By 2020, said the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2015 to 2020), mobile video will represent three-quarters of global mobile data traffic, up from 55% in 2015, as video streaming increases in popularity over traditional TV. In the UK alone, mobile video will be 77% of the mobile data traffic by 2020, compared to 59% at the end of 2015. Whilst Cloud applications will account for 92% of total mobile data traffic by 2020

The research suggests that users’ demand for higher video resolution, more bandwidth, and processing speed will increase the use of 4G connected devices which are set to represent more than 70% of all mobile traffic, and 4G connections will generate nearly six times more traffic per month than non-4G connections by 2020.

“With the ever-increasing billions of people and things that are being connected, mobility is the predominant medium that’s enabling today’s global digitization transformation,” said Doug Webster, vice president of service provider marketing, Cisco. “Future mobile innovations in cellular, such as 5G, and Wi-Fi solutions will be needed to further address new scale requirements, security concerns, and user demands. IoT advancements will continue to fuel tangible benefits for people, businesses, and societies.”



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