Eight Stats About Worldwide Traffic
August 15, 2017
Cisco recently released its forecast of growth of global IP traffic. Here is a summary of the latest trends from Cisco and other sources.
IP Video Traffic
- Video traffic is expected to grow by 73% by the year 2021.
- If predictions for 2021 are true, it would take 5 million years to watch all the video that will cross global networks each month.
Internet Video Surveillance
- Internet video surveillance is expected to increase sevenfold by 2021 and will most likely represent 3.4% of all internet video traffic.
- By 2019, video surveillance is expected to reach a market value of $42.81 billion.
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)
- Video-On-Demand (VOD)’s traffic is expected to double by 2021.
- VOD is expected to reach a worth of $74.81 billion by 2021.
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Work Cited
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