Cisco’s VNI predicts IP traffic to grow 4-fold in India

According to the 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, annual Internet Protocol (IP) traffic will quadruple between 2014 and 2019. Factors expected to drive traffic growth include increase in consumption of mobile data, proliferation in number of networked devices (from 1.1 billion in 2014 to 1.6 billion in 2019), faster broadband speeds (average fixed broadband speed to increase from 4 Mbps in 2014 to 12 Mbps by 2019) and the increased consumption of video. Collectively, these variables are expected to help IP traffic in India to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33 percent – as against a corresponding global CAGR of 23 percent.

Sanjay Kaul, Managing Director, Global Service Provider Business, Cisco India & SAARC said, “It took 32 years – from 1984 to 2016 – to generate 1 zettabyte of IP Traffic annually. According to this year’s Visual Networking Index, we will generate 2 zettabytes of IP Traffic annually just three years later, in 2019. In India, The IP traffic will grow 4-fold from 2014 to 2019, a compound annual growth of 33% and reach 4.0 Exabytes per month in 2019, up from 967 Petabytes per month in 2014. We are clearly headed toward a new era in Internet communications as the Internet of Everything gains momentum, with M2M connections predicted to triple, reaching 10.5 billion by 2019. We look forward to tracking the IoE economy in the coming years and its impact on healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, retail, transportation and other key industries.” See more