June 10, 2009
Soon, there will be so much video on the Web we'll be talking about "zettabytes"
Fueled by the insatiable demand for Web-based video, global Internet traffic will get nearly four times larger over the next four years. Scientific American reports.
By the end of 2013, the equivalent of 10 billion DVDs worth of information will cross the Net monthly, according to a report issued today by Cisco Systems.
If this prediction holds true, it would take more than half a million years to watch all the online video that crosses the Internet in just a single month by 2013, the company reports.
Cisco forecasts that video files will be part of 90 percent of all consumer Internet traffic in 2013.
Cisco needed a relatively new term to quantify that traffic: A zettabyte is measure of computer storage or memory equal to one trillion gigabytes. One gigabyte can hold about 341 digital pictures or about 256 MP3 audio files.)
Related:
-- The Exaflood - Technology experts are calling it the exaflood, a massive wave of new video and other bandwith intensive traffic headed for the web.
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