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You are here: Home / Cisco General / What will happen to Internet Traffic by 2020 – Some Statistics

What will happen to Internet Traffic by 2020 – Some Statistics

Written By Harris Andrea

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On June 7, 2016, Cisco released the “Cisco Visual Networking Index™ (VNI) Complete Forecast for 2015 to 2020” where several notable internet traffic statistics are predicted by the networking giant.

I have summarized the forecast document and presenting you below the most important stats and predictions about Internet traffic, Internet usage etc:

  • Global IP traffic will be 194.4 exabytes per month by 2020, up from 72.5 exabytes per month in 2015.
  • Internet Traffic from Mobile devices will exceed computer traffic by 2020. Specifically, 71% of total Internet traffic will be from non-computer devices such as smartphones, tablets, connected TVs etc.
  • Traffic from Smartphones will be 30% of total Internet traffic, whereas traffic from PCs will fall to 29% of total.
  • Video will dominate Internet traffic. Internet Video will account for 79% of total Internet traffic by 2020.
  • Internet users will increase by more than 1 billion between 2015-2020 (from 3 Billion to 4.1 Billion users by 2020).
  • Devices and connections will increase from 16.3 Billion in 2015 to 26.3 Billion in 2020.
  • Internet of Things (IoT) will have a huge impact on internet traffic growth. The “connected health” segment will have the largest growth and the “connected home” segment will have the largest volume of connected IoT devices.
  • Security is and will be of great importance to Internet services. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks will increase from 6.6 to 17 million attacks.
  • 48.2% of all fixed and mobile devices will support IPv6 by 2020.
  • 34% of all Internet traffic will be IPv6 by 2020.
  • Broadband Internet speeds will double from average 24.7 Mbps to 47.7 Mbps in 2020.
  • Public WiFi hotspots will grow from 64 million to 432 million in 2020.
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Have a look also at the following infographic for more details (click to enlarge):

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Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index Complete  Forecast Update, 2015-2020.

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About Harris Andrea

Harris Andrea is an Engineer with more than two decades of professional experience in the fields of TCP/IP Networks, Information Security and I.T. Over the years he has acquired several professional certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CEH, ECSA etc.

He is a self-published author of two books ("Cisco ASA Firewall Fundamentals" and "Cisco VPN Configuration Guide") which are available at Amazon and on this website as well.

Comments

  1. Sankar Das says

    June 16, 2016 at 1:30 am

    Excellent cocept

  2. Jack Wang says

    June 24, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    It is fascinating that video traffic will be 80% of overall data traffic in a few years. There is no doubt increasingly more high def. contents are being able to streaming across the internet by taking advantage of low cost bandwidth.

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