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Networks are an essential part of business, education, government, and home communications. Many residential, business, and mobile IP networking trends are being driven largely by a combination of video, social networking and advanced collaboration applications, termed “visual networking.”


The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) is the company's ongoing effort to forecast and analyze the growth and use of IP networks worldwide.

In June, Cisco released the Cisco VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast, 2010-2015. Highlights from the updated research include the following projections:

  • By 2015, annual global IP traffic will reach 966 exabytes - nearly a zettabyte
  • By 2015, there will be nearly three billion Internet users
  • By 2015, there will be nearly 15 billion global network connections (fixed and mobile personal devices and machine-to-machine connections)
  • By 2015, the world will reach three trillion Internet video minutes per month; that is one million Internet video minutes every second

Cisco is developing free applications and tools to help you better understand your network connection, and how you are using network resources.


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Cisco VNI Applications
Download a free application forselect iPhone and Blackberry models that tests your cellular or Wi-Fi connection speed. You can compare your data against other users and share your results.

Cisco VNI Usage research provides quantitative insights into current activity on service provider networks and qualitative samples of consumers' online behavior. In this cooperative program, more than 20 global service providers share anonymous, aggregate data with Cisco to analyze current network usage trends and gauge future infrastructure requirements.


Participating service providers serve millions of subscribers from around the world. They represent the mobile, wireline, and cable segments throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pac and various emerging markets.


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VNI Forecast Highlights Tool

See global, regional, and country-level projections.



What’s a Zettabyte?

Understand the value and size of IP traffic metrics.

 

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