Cisco network video report on mobile data traffic globally in 2012.

No doubt that we live in a world which is free of Internet technology, mobile Internet technology represents a key link between users and the vast amount of information you are trying to access.

The interview raises widespread tablet computers and smart phones, as well as the ability to use applications and need to access the Internet on the move, a major question about the size of a mobile data generated by drawing parallels to the network.

In order to take more close-up and the real size of mobile data with changes caused by communication equipment, had to do a review of the results and expectations of a Cisco network to mobile data traffic (Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic: Forecas) over the period 2012-2017, and that gives us a thorough analysis on the subject in more detail.

The main results can be summarized in the report of Cisco in the following points:

Overview for the year 2012

Mobile data traffic registered in 2012 and globally significant growth as much as 70 percent, and the growth rate was partially depending on each region of the world.

Western Europe in particular, recorded a significant slowdown in mobile data traffic, growth reached 44 percent, which remains much lower than the world average and less than expectations, despite the fact that this region is among the most important strategic areas. In contrast, the Asia-Pacific region has achieved greater rates by growth rate by 95 percent, to lead this area of global growth in mobile data traffic.

Because the slowdown in mobile data traffic in some areas for many reasons, including:

In particular, the substantial shortfall in the number of mobile plugins for laptops (laptop), as the number of laptops connected for example in Europe of 33.8 million by the end of the year to 32.6 million at the end of 2012. Mobile communications are generally for laptops and a major contributor to the overall movement of mobile communications, this decline is also an important factor in the slowdown registered in addition to expectations, especially at the level of the European continent.

Also affected by the user accounts in the fixed networks to mobile communications directly, particularly in terms of Internet use, although the owners of the Tablet and Smartphone depend largely on mobile communications, but this is not considered of great importance if we know that the wi-fi networks have become the other is wide spread.

Global mobile data traffic: from 2012 to 2017

It is expected that mobile data traffic volume will grow to 11.2 EB (Exabytes) per month by the year 2017, an increase of 13 weak compared to 2012, with an estimated annual growth rate of 66 percent and that from 2012 to 2017.

Shows through the following data that the Asia and the Pacific is the region’s first mobile data traffic for both what has been achieved in 2012 or in relation to the expectations for the next five years. This is a region of large competitive zones being containing demographic cross-section important addition to contain emerging markets such as China and India.

The diversity of communication devices

To increase diversity in the number of wireless devices that allow access to mobile networks one of the most important elements contributing to the growth of mobile data traffic globally. By 2017, it is expected that there will be 5.3 billion mobile device or personal mobile communication technology support (mobileready), and 1.7 billion device from machine to machine (M2M Machine To Machine), including for example the GPS systems installed in automotive, navigation and tracking systems used for maritime and other transport. Either regionally will be North America and Western Europe the fastest growing mobile telecommunications devices and the annual growth rate is estimated at 13 percent and 10 percent from 2012 to 2017, respectively.

On the other hand, the non-smart phones are the largest share of all mobile devices for communication, however after 2015 there will be a decline in the use of these devices

Cisco network video report on mobile data traffic globally in 2012.

Increase in average per-machine data traffic (Traffic/Device)

During the period of the forecast figures show increase in average upward movement of data for each type of communication devices

Video content

A video content or Mobile Video Content the highest compared with other contents that are accessed from the Web, as this content is expected to grow by an annual rate of around 75 percent from 2012 to 2017.

It will be the Mobile Video content primarily responsible for the overall increase in mobile data traffic volume, while as much as the arrival of size 11.2 exabytes by the year 2017, 7.4 Exabyte (66.5 percent) from video content only.

On the other hand, can be classified as many Internet applications in General and especially video applications as cloud applications. With the increasing use of cloud applications by users, such as Netflix, YouTube, Pandora and Spotify, it gives a clear picture of the cloud applications and forms which are expected to contribute up to 84 percent of all mobile data traffic in 2017, compared to 47 percent at the end of 2012

Increase in connection speed of mobile networks

Globally, the average connection speed of mobile phone network in 2012 by 526 Kbps. However, it is expected that the average speed of 3.9 Mbps in 2017, this coincided with the improvement of networks of third generation (3 g) and increased use of smartphones, which are expected to average connection speed alone level 6.5 Mbps in 2017.

You can also consider different average connection speed mobile networks according to the degree of growth in each country or region

Future 4 g networks (4G)

Betting a lot on the fourth generation networks will in future mobile communication technology, with the increased use of mobile applications and users of smart phones and tablet devices to broadband networks and frequency and speed optimizations.

On the other hand, the deployment of the networks 4 g in the world adopted first by the service providers and to assist operators in addition to providing a supportive and compatible communication tools in the hands of the consumer. And yet the full picture is that this technique is still characterized by high operating costs. On the whole of the emergence of 4 g networks that are expected to grow from 60 million in 2012 to 992 million with around 2017, many other factors remaining the third generation networks able to acquire larger quotas

Android and mobile data traffic

Data show that rates of consumption of mobile data is dramatically across devices which tchghl Android than from any other systems including the Apple devices. This is due to the large market share of captures the Android system to increase diversity in communication devices that rely on it as a platform.

The following figure shows that the rate of consumption data (MB per month) for Android is higher by 38 percent compared to rival the Apple iOS system.

Type applications to increase mobile data traffic

Another criterion can be relied upon to identify the topic and take an overview of mobile data traffic, and is classified according to the type of application and the degree of data consumption.

With the exception of system updates, the video playback applications over the network or video connections (Video/Communications), such as: YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, underwrites ranked first as the most data intensive applications on Smartphones or tablets, while second in consumption rates information applications such as Google Maps, Wall Street Journal, PulseNews. Of course cannot exclude social networks that come in third almertih

Finale

It can be confirmed that mobile data services is on its way to become one of the necessities for many users or network operators. This highlights the importance of considering that their existence is a basic rule in many areas you can count like cloud computing (Cloud computing) and cloud storage services, as well as video playback via network or even TV services, online games and other things that have today become an essential part of the life and activities of consumers.

On the other hand highlights the inevitability of more transparency and greater flexibility in the adoption of modern technologies of mobile data and track demand and engage consumers without exception.

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Cisco network video report on mobile data traffic globally in 2012.