2019 mobile data traffic will be 10 times now

The continued popularity of smart phones, as well as the use of wearable devices, will bring a substantial increase in the amount of mobile data usage. Forecast report released network equipment giant CISCO on display before, to 2019, the global wireless data traffic will increase to 10 times the current level.

CISCO's visual network index is part of the forecast based on the growth of wireless data traffic in 2014, CISCO said last year the global wireless data traffic reached 30 billion GB. CISCO analysts believe that if this trend continues, by 2019 the global internet wireless data traffic will reach 292 billion GB.

292 billion GB what is the concept of traffic? Perhaps this is easier to understand: it is equivalent to every person on the earth every day self 23 photos and uploaded to the Instagram website, for a full year, so the total number of photos is equivalent to about 65 trillion.

One of the key drivers of the rapid growth of wireless data traffic is the original growth of mobile users, the current global mobile data users is about 4 billion 300 million, by 2019 will increase to 5 billion 200 million. In other words, about 59% of the world's population, about 7 billion 200 million of mobile phones. By 2019, the world's total population will increase to 7 billion 600 million, the proportion of people with mobile phones will increase to 69%.

In addition, there are 3 billion 200 million wireless devices for machine to machine communication, especially in the industrial and other business environment to share data with other machines of various types of wireless devices. This includes 578 million wearable devices, such as fitness trackers, wearable wireless camera etc.. CISCO believes that by 2019 wearable devices will grow 18 times the amount of data, most of the data will be transmitted via smart phones.

For operators, the explosive growth of mobile data is naturally a top priority. CISCO proposed a response, that is, the wireless data traffic to the Wi-Fi network. Last year, less than half (46%) of wireless data traffic to Wi-Fi networks, by 2019 this figure will increase to 54%. In addition more than half of the voice calls will be completed through the Wi-Fi network.

In different regions, the Middle East and Africa, the annual growth rate of mobile data usage will reach 72%, the annual growth rate in the central and Eastern Europe will reach 71%, the annual growth rate in North America is only about $47%. However, in terms of traffic, Asia's leading in the world, by 2019 the Asian region's monthly mobile data traffic will be close to 10 billion GB, North America's monthly flow of nearly 4 billion GB.

In the prediction process, CISCO combines the analyst's independent report, the size of the real world traffic research, as well as their own forecasts for the development trend of the wireless market. CISCO is the world's largest network equipment manufacturer, providing products for Internet and wireless service providers around the world.