Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast has reported 13-fold increase rate in Global Mobile Data Traffic for 2012 to 2017 reaching 11.2 exabytes per month (for an annual run rate of 134 exabytes) by 2017.The projected 2012 to 2017 global mobile data traffic increase represents a compound annual growth rate of 66 percent. Smart phones, laptops, and tablets will drive 93 percent of global mobile data traffic by 2017. The average mobile connection is expected to increase seven-fold from 2012 to 2017.
The incremental amount of traffic being added to the mobile Internet just between 2016 and 2017 is 3.7 exabytes per month, which is more than four times the estimated size of the entire mobile Internet in 2012 (885 petabytes per month).Mobile networks with 4G solutions is expected to Support Nearly 10 Percent of All Mobile Connections by 2017.
Doug Webster, Vice President of Service Provider Networking Marketing, Cisco said, “By 2017, global mobile data traffic will continue its truly remarkable growth, increasing 13-fold over the next five years, to reach an amount more than 46 times the total amount of mobile IP traffic just a few years ago in 2010. With such dramatic adoption, we are rapidly approaching the time when nearly every network experience will be a mobile one and, more often than not, a visual one as well. This trend is a result of the seemingly insatiable demand by consumers and businesses alike to achieve the benefits gained when connecting people, data, and things in an Internet of Everything.”
