{"id":2865,"date":"2012-03-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2012-03-28T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:00:00","slug":"mobile-mobile-computing-to-rule-the-next-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/mobile-mobile-computing-to-rule-the-next-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile: Mobile Computing to Rule the Next Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mobile data traffic will grow at a annual rate of 78 percent through 2016 by an estimate in Cisco’s annual Visual Networking Index<\/a>. \u00a0Compouned, that amounts to a factor of 18 increase of traffic from 2011 to 2016. \u00a0The report predicts that by 2016 there will be 10 billion mobile devices, more than one device per person on the earth, and all of those devices will generate 10.8 exebytes of mobile data traffic monthly, the equivalent of streaming 33 billion DVD’s or 4.3 quadrillion MP3 files\u00a0annually.<\/p>\n

Mobile devices are driving this surge in network traffic. \u00a0Suraj Shetty<\/a>, Vice President \u00a0of service-provider marketing at Cisco, said that\u00a0“Mobile data traffic will continue to explode. \u00a0This is a trend we don’t see slowing down.”<\/p>\n

Mobile data traffic in 2011 increased 2.3 times the previous year and the fourth year in a row where the data more than doubled. \u00a02011’s mobile data traffic was 597 petabytes, eight times the size of the entire Internet traffic in 2000 of 75 petabytes.<\/p>\n

The Cisco report also predicts that<\/p>\n