Can you handle a Zettabyte?
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Researchers for the company Cisco have recently published their forecasts on how web traffic will look in the immediate future.
Their findings indicate that all global web traffic will soon exceed half a zettabyte in just four years.
Cisco determine that web traffic will double every two years until 2012. This means that the internet will be 75 times larger in 2012 that it was in 2002.
Cisco also find that web video is an enormous driver for growth in traffic, both now and in the near future. This growth, in the conjoined ‘image and sound’ context of the web will create surprising web usage and reaction.
They don’t know, but it will have massive impact – perhaps more clearly put?
You can read the executive summary of the Cisco findings here.
The numbers related to internet usage and take-up continue to grow. Use the links here to find out what an exabyte or zettabyte is – we didn’t know either.
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