Global Cloud Traffic to grow 4.5-fold by 2017, says Cisco report
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As per the third annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2012-2017),Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO) forecasts that global Cloud traffic is expected to grow 4.5-fold - a 35per cent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) from 1.2 zettabytes of annual traffic in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017. Overall, global data center traffic will grow threefold and reach a total of 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017.
For the period 2012–2017, Cisco forecasts that 7 per cent of data center traffic will be generated between data centers, primarily driven by data replication and software/system updates. An additional 76 per cent of data center traffic will stay within the data center and will be largely generated by storage, production and development data in a virtualized environment.
People all over the world continue to demand the ability to access personal, business and entertainment content anywhere on any device, and each transaction in a virtualized, cloud environment can cause cascading effects on the network. Because of this continuing trend, we are seeing huge increases in the amount of cloud traffic within, between and beyond data centers over the next four years, said Doug Merritt, Senior Vice-President, Product and Solutions Marketing, Cisco.
From a regional perspective, the Cisco Global Cloud Index predicts that through 2017, the Middle East and Africa will have the highest cloud traffic growth rate (57 per cent CAGR), followed by Asia-Pacific (43 per cent CAGR) and Central and Eastern Europe (36 per cent CAGR).......See More
For the period 2012–2017, Cisco forecasts that 7 per cent of data center traffic will be generated between data centers, primarily driven by data replication and software/system updates. An additional 76 per cent of data center traffic will stay within the data center and will be largely generated by storage, production and development data in a virtualized environment.
People all over the world continue to demand the ability to access personal, business and entertainment content anywhere on any device, and each transaction in a virtualized, cloud environment can cause cascading effects on the network. Because of this continuing trend, we are seeing huge increases in the amount of cloud traffic within, between and beyond data centers over the next four years, said Doug Merritt, Senior Vice-President, Product and Solutions Marketing, Cisco.
From a regional perspective, the Cisco Global Cloud Index predicts that through 2017, the Middle East and Africa will have the highest cloud traffic growth rate (57 per cent CAGR), followed by Asia-Pacific (43 per cent CAGR) and Central and Eastern Europe (36 per cent CAGR).......See More