Future of the Internet

Cisco does annual predictions about the internet and here are few interesting predictions for the year 2017.

• In the year 2017 more data will move on the internet than the beginning of the internet.
• The Asia pacific region will generate 36% of all internet traffic by 2017.
• There will be 3.6 billion internet users.
• There will be over 19 billion connection.
• Internet speeds will be 3.5 times faster than 2012.
• Almost half of the world's population will have internet access.
• Personal tablet access will increase from 27 million 2012 to 190 million.
• Overall tablets will be about 425 million.
• More than 827 million TVs will have internet access.
• Average household internet traffic will increase from equivalent 13 hours of HDTV to 30.
• Smartphones and tablets will increase to 29% of all usage and PCs will slip from 88% to 57%.

Cisco has proven to be very accurate in its past predictions about the net.