IP traffic in India to rise 33% annually, says Cisco index

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 28

Spurred by rising usage of mobile data and additional networked devices, the Internet Protocol (IP) traffic in India will quadruple between 2014 and 2019 by growing at a pace of 33% annually.

“In India, IP traffic will reach 4.0 exabytes per month in 2019, up from 967 petabytes per month in 2014,” Cisco said in its 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast.

The US-based networking solution company said the average fixed broadband speed in India would grow 2.9-fold to 12 Mbps in 2019 from 4 Mbps in 2014. The number of networked devices, it said, will increase to 1.6 billion from 1.1 billion in the same period. The expected drivers are surging mobile data consumption, proliferation in networked devices, faster broadband speed, and higher usage of videos.