Cisco reveals on its 10th annual visual networking index forecast that India's Internet protocol traffic will quadruple from 2014 to 2019 at the rate of 33 percent every year. Some of the driving forces behind the surge include increasing mobile data usage, growing popularity of networked devices, increased broadband speed, and higher user demand on videos.
The U.S.-based company, which specializes in providing networking solutions, says that in India, the average fixed broadband speed will grow 2.9-fold to 12Mbps in 2019 as compared to 2014's 4.0Mbps. Likewise, it also sees an increase in the number of networked devices from 1.1 billion to 1.6 billion during the same period.
"In India, IP traffic will reach 4.0 exabytes per month in 2019, up from 967 petabytes per month in 2014," said Cisco.
The same growth can be seen on a global scale wherein IP traffic is expected to hit 2 zettabytes within the next four years. This will be largely due to an increase in the number of web users, more M2M connections, enhanced broadband speeds and more.
"According to this year's Visual Networking Index, we will generate two zettabytes of IP traffic annually, just three years later in 2019," said Sanjay Kaul, head of Cisco's Service provider business across India and the SAARC region.
Another area that is expected to see incredible growth in India is mobile data traffic. Cisco believes that mobile data traffic in the country will have a 13 fold growth rate at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 67 percent.
Out of the total IP traffic in 2014, nine percent of it is credited to mobile traffic which is expected to increase by up to 28 percent of the total IP traffic five years later.
In India, 74 percent of all networked devices will become mobile-connected in 2019. On average, each household will generate 40.9 gigabytes of monthly Internet traffic in that same year. Furthermore, 74 billion minutes of video content will be streamed or downloaded through the Internet each month which is equivalent to 28,348 minutes of video content streamed or downloaded in every second.
"We are clearly headed towards a new era in Internet communications as the Internet of Everything gains momentum, with M2M connections predicted to triple, reaching 10.5 billion by 2019," said Kaul.
