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Cisco Predicts Internet Device Boom
There will be twice as many Internet-connected devices as people in the world in the next four years due to the proliferation of tablets, mobile phones, connected appliances, and other smart machines, according to Cisco's fifth annual forecast of upcoming trends.
Cisco predicts that there will be more than 15 billion internet connected devices, 1 million minutes of video will be watched online every second, Internet traffic will reach 966 exabytes a year, and more than 40 percent of the world's population will be online by 2015.
"All this is putting a lot of pressure on the Internet and the next generation Internet faces issues handling not just the proliferation of these devices but how they are going to grow and be intelligent enough to be connected to you," says Cisco's Suraj Shetty.
Managing traffic intelligently will be the most pressing issue, considering the pool of 4.3 billion Internet protocol (IP) version 4 addresses could run out as early as August. Verizon, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, TimeWarner, Comcast, and many other companies will join Cisco in testing IPv6 on June 8.
"It is clear that the move to IPv6 will be critical in supporting the total number of devices on the global Internet going forward," says California IPv6 taskforce co-chair Ed Horely.
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