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Household Bandwidth Use to Rise 31% Each Year Through 2018, Ciena Study Says

Average household bandwidth requirements will increase 31 percent annually over the next five years, a Ciena study said. The study, released Wednesday and done by ACG Research, provides information to help network planners model the impact of residential households’…

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increasing use of broadband and subscription video services across varied devices on specific network scenarios, Ciena said in a . Internet video use, including smart TVs, is expected to grow from 12 percent of overall peak average bandwidth in 2014 to 25 percent in 2018, it said. It will be the largest contributor to household bandwidth consumption by 2018, said Ciena. It said use of 4K streaming video services will grow from 2 percent in 2014 to 12 percent in 2018.