It’s common knowledge that the amount of online rich media consumption is increasing exponentially on an annual basis. But how much video traffic is projected over the next five years? And what does this growth really mean for global residential, business, and mobile subscribers and the service providers that support them? Well, to begin, we need to expand our traffic terminology. Today we live in a world of petabytes and exabytes but according to the latest findings from the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI), we’ll need to add the term “zettabyte” to our vocabulary by 2015.
So, how much exactly is a zettabyte?
A zettabyte is roughly 1000 exabytes. To place that amount of volume in more practical terms, an exabyte alone has the capacity to hold over 36,000 years worth of HD quality video…or stream the entire Netflix catalog more than 3,000 times. A zettabyte is equivalent to about 250 billion DVDs.
By 2015, the majority of global Internet traffic (61 percent) will be in some form of video—Internet video-to-PC, Internet video-to-TV, mobile video, et al.The “dawn of the Zettabyte era” will be an unprecedented online milestone that will occur in our lifetime.
To better understand the significance of a zettabyte, we have put together an in-depth infographic to provide a visual snapshot of our online future. The way the world uses the web is changing and this infographic provides a quick Cisco perspective of what’s to come.
Are you ready for the zettabyte era? Check out the infographic here.
With so many consumer devices and tools creeping into our professional lives, our expectations as employees are changing. The result is increasing pressure on IT departments. To get a better sense for what that really means, we decided to do a quick and informal poll series on our corporate Facebook page to learn how people
View their companies’ IT departments when it comes to adopting consumer, social and mobile tools at work
Use these tools during their typical workday
How about the sample size, you might ask. Within a short amount of time, we received qualified responses from 132 to several hundreds of people, depending on the question. Here are some of the results:
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Unfortunately, hope and $3.50 will get me a café latte and that latte cannot secure my precious data at this point; my saved passwords, tax returns…the keys to the castle. Our devices are increasingly holding more important information and when these devices get compromised, so does our sensitive data. Follow @Arom1000 Read More »
How will the explosion of mobile devices, security threats, video, and cloud effect how customers build their networks?
What are the pitfalls to taking a tactical (or good enough) approach to networking?
And why is good not good enough for enterprise networks?
These were among the questions tackled when Cisco’s Rob Lloyd, EVP of Worldwide Operations, and Mike Rau, VP and CTO, Borderless Networks, hosted a 45-minute webcast to debunk the Myth of the “Good Enough” Network. Along with Bob Cagnazzi, CEO of BlueWater Communications, Rob and Mike discussed:
• IT industry trends driving the evolution of the network
• Common misperceptions about taking a “good enough” approach to networking
• Real world benefits of investing in the network as a strategic asset and innovation engine
What are the seven myths of the Good Enough Network? Tune in to the replay of the webcast to find out!
Yesterday, I blogged about the “good-enough” network. You know, it’s a network that just good enough to send out a quick email or watch a video, but not quite fast or reliable enough to do everything you need.
It may be easier to think of the good-enough network in terms of other areas of your life where good enough just doesn’t cut it.
For instance, a 19-inch tube TV is certainly good enough for watching reruns of “Magnum P.I.,” but not for watching the big game.
Or using SPF 5 sunscreen may be good enough, but SPF 30 is a way better option if you want to avoid a sunburn.
Just imagine if your customers settled for a good-enough network? It may go something like this:
What are the seven myths about the good-enough network? Read More »
I was the recently on the wrong end of a 488. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the California penal codes, that’s a petty theft. My laptop, PS3, and iPad are gone, taken from me. At this point, I can only 
