Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) Makes Mobile Traffic Explosion Predictions

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) released predictions on the impact of tablet computers and smartphones on traffic over wireless networks, and if accurate, are extraordinary in growth and speed potential.

By 2015, Cisco said they see traffic in the two sectors growing by 26 times what it is today on the mobile web.

Concerning tablet devices, they see growth accelerating by 205 times through 2015 as it was in 2010. Connection speeds are expected to increase by 10 times what it is today.

Here’s how Cisco sees the numbers:

92 percent: Compound annual growth rate in data traffic from 2010 to 2015.

5.6 billion: Number of personal devices connected to mobile networks by 2015.

1.5 billion: Number of machine-to-machine nodes.

66 percent: Portion of data traffic allocated to video by 2015.

159 percent: Increase in global mobile data traffic from 2009 to 2010.

129 percent: Compound annual growth rate of mobile data traffic growth projected in Middle East and Africa from 2010 to 2015.

248 petabytes: Amount of monthly data expected from tablets in 2015.

295 petabytes: Amount of mobile data traffic expected to come from machine-to-machine connections in 2015.

613 kbps: Average smartphone connection speed in 2009.

4,404 kbps: Average smartphone connection speed in 2015.

Cisco was trading at $21.49, up $0.34, or 1.61 percent, as of 12:23 PM EST.

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