Global Internet traffic is expected to grow by 4 times in the next five years.
Asia is expected to surpass North America in the amount of Internet traffic passing over networks by 2015, according to a study released today by Cisco.
The company also predicts that the Middle East-Africa region will surpass Latin America as the fastest-growing in terms of Internet traffic.
The data comes from Cisco’s fifth annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) report, which the company uses in planning its business.
Overall, the company expects global Internet traffic to grow by 4 times in the next five years. At that point, the data equivalent of all movies ever made will be crossing the Internet every four minutes.
Here are the complete statistics by region, measured in petabytes — each petabyte is about 1 million GB.
By Geography (Petabytes per Month)
Region | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | %CAGR(2010-2015) |
North America | 6,998 | 9,947 | 12,978 | 16,116 | 18,848 | 22,274 | 26% |
Western Europe | 4,776 | 6,496 | 8,819 | 11,774 | 15,187 | 18,858 | 32% |
Asia Pacific | 5,363 | 7,309 | 9,834 | 13,322 | 18,015 | 24,112 | 35% |
Japan | 1,435 | 2,009 | 2,686 | 3,409 | 4,123 | 4,800 | 27% |
Latin America | 665 | 993 | 1,465 | 2,158 | 3,238 | 4,681 | 48% |
Central Eastern | 708 | 1,004 | 1,413 | 1,955 | 2,700 | 3,713 | 39% |
Europe | |||||||
Middle East | 253 | 366 | 550 | 802 | 1,235 | 2,019 | 52% |
and Africa |
Via Business Insider