{"id":336,"date":"2009-06-10T10:48:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T14:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2009-06-10T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T14:48:53","slug":"web-video-predicted-to-drive-60-of-internet-traffic-in-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/web-video-predicted-to-drive-60-of-internet-traffic-in-4-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Video Predicted To Drive 60% of Internet Traffic In 4 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco Systems just published a new white paper analysis&#8230;and in it they predict that web traffic will quintuple by 2013&#8230;driven largely by video.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, web video makes up about one-third of Internet traffic.\u00a0 But within four years, that number is expected to swell to <strong>60%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And once you figure in <strong>ALL<\/strong> the ways video is consumed&#8230;on the television, video on demand, peer-to-peer and the Internet, it&#8217;s predicted that video will account for <em><strong>91% of all Internet traffic<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a big number&#8230;but people like their video.\u00a0 After all, there&#8217;s a very human reason why newspaper and book sales continue to dwindle&#8230;while web video and television consumption continues to rise; <strong>most people prefer watching over reading<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full Cisco white paper (will all the detailed statistics), just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/solutions\/collateral\/ns341\/ns525\/ns537\/ns705\/ns827\/white_paper_c11-481360_ns827_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco Systems just published a new white paper analysis&#8230;and in it they predict that web traffic will quintuple by 2013&#8230;driven largely by video. Right now, web video makes up about one-third of Internet traffic.\u00a0 But within four years, that number is expected to swell to 60%. And once you figure in ALL the ways video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[34,224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}