56 Exabytes of monthly traffic predicted

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• Jun 18, 2009

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56 Exabytes of monthly traffic predicted

Cisco predicts that global IP traffic is expected to increase fivefold from 2008 to 2013

 

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• Jun 18, 2009

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I hate to sound like Georgie Bush here,
but how much is 1 exabyte ? I have never come across
such a word... mmm

 

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aah..
kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte

So thats 56 000 000 000 Gb of monthly traffic, darn and I only get one

 

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• Jun 18, 2009

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will they be capped before that?

 

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56 exabytes is 64,563,604,257,983,430,656 bytes.

6,787,289,551 people in the world ( http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html )

That's 8.8 gigabytes per person per month if everybody took a fair share.

I feel so ripped off.

 

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laichzeit said:

aah..
kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte

So thats 56 000 000 000 Gb of monthly traffic, darn and I only get one

Click to expand...

I get 2

 

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• Jun 18, 2009

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I just wish they'd get this whole "network hour" bull out of their calculations.