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Global IP traffic will reach an annual run...

Global IP traffic will reach an annual run rate of 1.6 zettabytes -- more than 1.5 trillion gigabytes -- by 2018, Cisco said Tuesday. That would be more traffic globally than occurred in all prior “Internet years” combined, Cisco said…

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in a report. There will be 3.9 billion Internet users by 2018 -- more than half the world’s projected population for that year, it said. By then, the average broadband speed will be 42 Mbps, up from an average of 16 Mbps in 2013, Cisco said. Broadband speed increases will drive projected increases in IP video usage, 4K UltraHD connectivity and machine-to-machine connections, the report said. IP video will be 80 percent of all IP traffic in 2018, up from 66 percent in 2013, Cisco said. There will be 2.7 networked devices and connections for every person on Earth by 2018, up from 1.7 per person in 2013, the report said (http://bit.ly/P1eXkv).