Cisco Government Affairs: Facts and Stats

PRODUCTIVITY: Technology companies that used the Internet as part of their business in 2000 experienced 2.7 times higher productivity than those that did not use the Web (13.4% increase vs. 4.9% increase). (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mar. 2001).
PUBLIC OPINION, INTERNET GAINING ON TV: One-third of Americans with home Internet access would give up TV rather than Internet if they had to choose between them. (Arbitron/Edison, Jan. 2001).
VOLUME OF INTERNET TRAFFIC: Internet traffic will increase from 350,000 terabytes per month at the end of 1999 to 15 million per month in 2003. (The Standard / Ryan, Hankins & Kent, June 19, 2000).
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: An optical fiber can carry thousands of times more data than a copper cable: in principle, a single fiber can transmit up to 25 trillion bits per second. That's enough capacity to carry all the telephone conversations taking place at any instant in the United States-with room to spare.
TELECOM POLICY: Of the 78 million miles of fiber laid in the U.S. over the past 20 years, 50 million have been installed since the U.S. Congress passed the Telecommunications Act. (KMI Corp. quoted in Wall Street Journal, Feb. 26, 2001). The year 2000 set the record, with 19 million miles. That translates into roughly 190,000 miles of digging because a single pipe generally carries approximately 100 fibers.
STATE OF THE NET, EMAIL 2005: 35 billion emails will be sent every day by 2005, up from 10 billion daily emails in 2000. (IDC, Oct. 2000).
STATE OF THE NET, E-MAIL: There are now as many as 170M corporate electronic mailboxes in use, growing 32% per year, with 440M mailboxes in total. The average number of email messages per day is 32, up 84% per year. The average message size is 286 kbytes, up 192% per year. (Source: "Messaging Online"). Thus, there is a compound effect from more email users, more messages and larger messages. Message traffic is growing at least 7x per year. 91% of US households will be online and the average online home will have 2.7 Internet-connected devices by 2005 (Source: Strategy Analytics)
STATE OF THE NET, ENGLISH AS A FIRST LANGUAGE: English is the official language of nearly 70% of the Web's pages - Japanese a distant second. (Vilaweb, 2000). http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,1323,5901_408521,00.html
STATE OF THE NET, IP TO BE DOMINANT TRAFFIC-TYPE: By 2004, analysts believe that up to 95% of traffic will be IP. (Xchange magazine, Dec. 2000).
STATE OF THE NET: Number of hosts on the Internet worldwide has topped the 100 million mark (45% increase from a year ago). (Telcordia Technologies Inc , Jan. 2001).
STATE OF THE NET: Almost 55% of all web traffic comes from outside the United States. (WebSideStory's StatMarket., 2000).
STATE OF THE NET: Approximately 98% of words in Webster's English Dictionary are registered as domain names. (Win Treese's Internet Index, Sep. 2000).
STATE OF THE NET: Internet usage is currently 350 petabytes per month--far more than the PSTN. (BCR, 2000).

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Research organizations differ on many measurements and predictions. Cisco Systems cannot verify the accuracy of all of the findings. We include all credible information to offer a glimpse into the range of estimates and predictions.
Abbreviations / acronyms used herein are defined and explained more fully in the issue briefs available at Cisco’s public policy page. Most common acronyms include DSL (digital subscriber line service, which is high speed Internet access over telephone lines); WAN (wide area network connections link different organizations such as schools across a region); LAN (local area network connections link computers within an organization)

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