10th Annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Mobile Forecast Projects 70 Percent of Global Population Will Be Mobile Users With 1.5 Connections per Capita by 2020 - Seite 2

Mobile Data Traffic Projections and Trends:

Global Mobile Data Traffic Shows No Signs of Slowing Down

• By 2020:
  • Global mobile data traffic will reach 30.6 exabytes per month -- up from 3.7 exabytes in 2015.
  • Annual global mobile data traffic will reach 366.8 exabytes -- up from 44.2 exabytes in 2015.
• The forecast annual run rate of 366.8 exabytes of mobile data traffic for 2020 is equivalent to:
  • 120X more than all global mobile traffic generated just 10 years ago in 2010.
  • 81 trillion images (e.g., MMS or Instagram) -- 28 daily images per person on earth for a year.
  • 7 trillion video clips (e.g., YouTube) -- more than 2.5 daily video clips per person on earth for a year.
• From 2015 to 2020, global mobile data traffic will grow two times faster than global fixed IP traffic.
• In 2015, 51 percent of total mobile data traffic was offloaded; by 2020, 55 percent of total mobile data traffic will be offloaded.
• By 2020, over 75 percent of the world's mobile data traffic will be video.
  
  

Mobile Devices and Connections Are Getting Smarter

• There will be 11.6 billion mobile-ready devices/connections -- including 8.5 billion personal mobile devices and 3.1 billion M2M connections -- up from 7.9 billion total mobile-ready devices and M2M connections in 2015.
• Globally, 67 percent of mobile devices/connections will be 'smart' by 2020 -- up from 36 percent in 2015.
• Globally, 98 percent of mobile data traffic will come from 'smart' devices/connections by 2020 -- up from 89 percent in 2015.
• Smartphones, laptops, and tablets will drive about 92 percent of global mobile data traffic by 2020 -- down from 94 percent in 2015. M2M traffic will represent 7 percent of global mobile data traffic by 2020 -- up from 3 percent in 2015; while basic handsets will account for 1 percent of global mobile data traffic by 2020 -- down from 3 percent in 2015.
• By 2020:
  •  66 percent of mobile devices/connections will be IPv6-capable -- up from 36 percent in 2015.
  • IPv6 traffic will be 54 percent of total mobile data traffic -- up from 13 percent in 2015.