Router and switches manufacturing company Cisco has indicated that mobile data traffic throughout the world will reach 3.6 exabytes per month or an annual run rate of 40 exabytes by 2014. It means that the amount of data traffic traversing the mobile network by 2014 will be equal to about one billion DVDs.
Aaccording to Cisco's Global Mobile Data Forecast for 2009-2014, the rate at which mobile data traffic is growing today is about 2.4 times faster than fixed broadband data traffic around the world. One of the many driving forces behind this growth in mobile data traffic is increase in number of technologically advanced mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone. It is being expected that in the next few years there could be dozens of such gadgets powered by Google's Android operating system. Cisco's researchers estimate there will be more than five billion personal devices connecting to mobile networks by 2014.
Doug Webster, Senior Director, Cisco said, "The rapid consumer adoption of smart phones, netbooks, e-readers and web-ready video cameras as well as machine-to-machine applications like eHealth monitoring and asset tracking systems, are continuing to place unprecedented demands on mobile networks."
One more reason seems to be the mobile video. Researchers expect that by 2014, that mobile video traffic will represent 66 percent of all mobile data traffic, increasing 66-fold from 2009 to 2014.
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