{"id":14199,"date":"2012-05-31T16:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=14199"},"modified":"2012-05-31T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:38:18","slug":"internet-four-times-larger-by-2016-cisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/14199\/internet-four-times-larger-by-2016-cisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet four times larger by 2016: Cisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In South Africa, Internet traffic is \u00a0set to grow 10.5-fold from 2011 to 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60%, according to new data released by IT networking group, Cisco.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cisco\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227093-Cisco\">Cisco<\/a>\u00a0has issued results of the annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast 2012, the company\u2019s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyse Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The VNI Forecast quantitatively projects consumer and business user generated IP traffic expected to travel over public and private networks.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the prominent results from Cisco\u2019s forecasts include that SA\u2019s Internet traffic will grow 10.5-fold from 2011 to 2016, mobile data traffic will grow 49-fold from 2011 to 2016, and the average broadband speed will grow 2.6-fold from 2011 to 2016 (from 2.0 Mbps to 5 Mbps).<\/p>\n<p>The Forecast projects the following growth areas for the South African market:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Traffic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet traffic will grow 10.5-fold from 2011 to 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60%;<\/li>\n<li>Internet traffic will reach 425 petabytes per month in 2016, up from 40 petabytes per month in 2011;<\/li>\n<li>Internet traffic in 2016 will be equivalent to 1 billion DVDs per year, 106 million DVDs per month or 145,715 DVDs per hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Internet Video<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet video traffic will be 79% of all consumer Internet traffic in 2016, up from 56% in 2011;<\/li>\n<li>58 billion minutes of video content will cross the Internet each month in 2016, up from 4 billion in 2011;<\/li>\n<li>Video exceeded half of South Africa\u2019s consumer Internet traffic by year-end 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mobile data traffic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mobile data traffic will grow 49-fold from 2011 to 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 118%;<\/li>\n<li>Mobile data traffic in 2016 will be equivalent to 17x the volume of the entire South African Internet in 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Device Growth<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There will be 134 million networked devices in 2016, up from 83 million in 2011;<\/li>\n<li>There will be 2.6 networked devices per capita in 2016, up from 1.6 per capita in 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Broadband Speed Evolution<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average broadband speed will grow 2.6-fold from 2011 to 2016, from 2.0 Mbps to 5 Mbps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Average Traffic per User and Household<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average Internet user will generate 39.6 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month in 2016, up 754% from 4.6 gigabytes per month in 2011, a CAGR of 54%;<\/li>\n<li>The average Internet household will generate 128.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month in 2016, up 1,231% from 9.6 gigabytes per month in 2011, a CAGR of 68%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The significant level of traffic growth and service penetration is driven by a number of global factors, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An increasing number of devices: The proliferation of tablets, mobile phones and other smart devices as well as machine-to-machine (M2M) connections are driving up the demand for connectivity;<\/li>\n<li>More Internet users: By 2016 there will be 3.4 billion Internet users across the globe \u2013 about 45% of the world\u2019s projected population according to United Nations estimates;<\/li>\n<li>Faster broadband speeds: The average global fixed broadband speed is expected to increase nearly 4-fold from 9 Mbps in 2011 to 35 Mbps in 2016;<\/li>\n<li>More video: By 2016, 1.2 million video minutes \u2013 the equivalent of 833 days (or over two years) \u2013 will travel the Internet every second;<\/li>\n<li>Wi-Fi growth: By 2016 over half of the world\u2019s Internet traffic will come from Wi-Fi connections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA breaks 3Mbps broadband average\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/45269-sa-breaks-3mbps-broadband-average.html\"><strong>SA breaks 3Mbps broadband average<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"10Mbps: the global broadband standard\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/43087-10mbps-the-global-broadband-standard.html\"><strong>10Mbps: the global broadband standard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Broadband speeds: South Africa versus Africa\" 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