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IP Traffic to Triple as More Users, Devices Connect to Networks

IP Traffic to Triple as More Users, Devices Connect to Networks

June 8, 2016

Via: eWeek

The rapidly increasing number of Internet users worldwide and the proliferation of personal devices and machine-to-machine connections will drive steep growth in global IP traffic, which will almost triple over the next five years, according to Cisco Systems officials.

According to the networking vendor’s latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) for 2015 to 2020, IP traffic worldwide will jump 22 percent a year over the next five years, as the number of Internet users grows from 3 billion last year to 4.1 billion by 2020, and the number of new devices jumping on these networks will rise from 16.3 billion in 2015 to 26.3 billion in five years.

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