Web Demand to Pass 100k Petabytes/Month in 2015

March 14, 2012
According to IDC, Internet-generated broadband traffic will increase approximately 50% year over year on fixed networks and double on mobile networks. The research house forecasts that end-user demand for worldwide wireline and mobile broadband traffic will increase from 9,665 petabytes per month in 2010 to 116,539 petabytes per month in 2015. Web browsing, peer-to-peer file sharing, audio/video streaming, and a host of other applications are all driving bandwidth consumption.