Cisco Predicts Big Growth for the Internet to Continue
June 17, 2008
Traffic on the world’s networks will increase 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. As a result, there will be an annual bandwidth demand of approximately 522 exabytes2, or more than half a zettabyte.
Gigom’s commenter Pavin of http://www.3ginternet.blogspot.com/ also mentioned this:
3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, superseding 2G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, IMT-2000. 3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency.
WiMAX will also have a big push in the next two years. I’m not sure what kind of devices will take advantage of the increased wireless bandwidth but whatever it is it will compete with cable which will hopefully drive pricess waaaay down. Cisco’s stock is sure to benefit.
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