Mexico. Comstor notes that global IP traffic will exceed 2 Zettabytes in 2020, according to information from Cisco.
More than 1 billion new Internet users, and an even larger number of new devices, will drive the growth of the planet's annual IP traffic to 2.3 Zettabytes in 2020, up from 870 Exabytes in 2015, according to Cisco Visual Networking Index.
The annual forecast report indicates that the number of Internet users will increase to 4.1 billion in 4 years. In 2015, that number was 3 billion. With an increasing number of connected personal devices, allied to the growth of machine-to-machine communication technologies, the network will receive 26.3 billion new devices and connections in 2020, a growth of about 10 billion compared to last year. In reality, the number of devices connected to IP networks will be three times that of the global population, with about 3.4 devices per capita.
The Internet of Things plays a highly important role in driving IP traffic growth, according to a Cisco study. If we look at the global numbers, M2M connections are going to grow 12.2 billion in 4 years. Of all the IoT applications, the Healthcare segment—with health monitoring applications, drug distributors, and telemedicine—is the one that will get the fastest growth. On the other hand, the Smart Homes segment will represent the largest volume of M2M connections.
However, video and content services will continue to dominate Internet traffic, according to Cisco. Videos on the Web will account for about 79% of global internet traffic in 2020, a 15% increase from the previous year. And corporate video technologies will account for about 66% of companies' Internet traffic within 4 years, up from 44% in 2015.
If you believe that video surveillance technologies are already quite present in society, in 2020 the sector will be about 10 times larger than in 2015. That means 3.9% of all global video traffic in 2020 will be produced by video surveillance technologies.
On IPv6, Cisco forecasts that 48% of all networked devices and fixed mobile connections around the world will be able to use the protocol by 2020, a 25% increase compared to 2015. Until then, the IPv6 protocol will move 34% of all Internet traffic.
However, Cisco notes that its estimate is based on the ability of devices and connections to support IPv6, and is not a projection of actually active IPv6 connections. If 60% of devices with IPv6 support will be actively connected to an IPv6 network by 2020, Cisco estimates that value of 34% of the global IP traffic originating from an IPv6 connection.
The report also illustrates the growth of mobile networks. In 2015, Wi-Fi connected devices generated 62% of Internet traffic. Cisco expects that percentage to reach 78% in 2020.
