Estimating Cable or Telco Network IP Traffic Growth

You may have heard or read that the current Cisco Visual Networking Index forecast projects that by 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte. But have you ever wondered what impact this IP traffic growth will have …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on September 30, 2009 at 01:41PM

Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast Annual Update

The Annual Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast has just been released and projects a five-fold increase in traffic from 2008 to 2013, when an estimated 2/3rds of a zettabyte will cross the network. Watch to learn more about the study, …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on June 09, 2009 at 05:00AM

Mobile World Congress 2009: The Mobile IP Traffic Wave Cometh

The Cisco Visual Networking Index mobile update projects a 66 fold increase between 2008 and 2013, driven by video and the use of full-featured 4G enabled devices. Get the highlights, presented in a Bob Dylan/INXS style against a backdrop of …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on February 19, 2009 at 05:01PM

Are you a Super User?

Sure there is invariably going to be the requisite smack talking around this topic - John Earnhardt claims that he was twittering when “it was spelled with only ‘t’” and Mike Kisch counters that he has adopted a “100% visual …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on February 03, 2009 at 09:57AM

Video Everywhere

Over the last year, we have continued to see mass adoption of video in every aspect of our lives and it is changing the way we live, work play and learn. Just this weekend, I was with a friend showing …Read more.

Posted by Kelly Ahuja on January 30, 2009 at 08:38AM

Approaching the Zettabyte Era

This week, at NXTcomm in Las Vegas, we introduced the Cisco Visual Networking Index, an ongoing Cisco initiative designed to provide quantitative and qualitative information regarding trends in IP network demand and usage. Part of a collaborative effort from throughout …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on June 20, 2008 at 10:29AM

NXTcomm Update: Visual Networking Index

I’d like to introduce the Cisco Visual Networking Index and discuss an overview of the findings and drivers of IP traffic growth worldwide.

Posted by Doug Webster on June 18, 2008 at 08:16PM

Welcome to the Exabyte Era, part 2

In a previous post, I wrote about our Cisco IP Traffic Study, entitled “The Exabyte Era.”  It’s getting a lot of attention now as its topic is being featured as one of the drivers of the need for new platforms …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on April 28, 2008 at 02:51PM

What is an Exabyte?

“What comes after Petabyte?” was my question to Arielle Sumits, our lead researcher on the IP Traffic Study a few years ago, when we started the effort a few years ago.  Even with a wide variety of very regional and …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on April 24, 2008 at 09:20AM