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2016: The Internet Forecast to Quadruple in Size in Next Four Years

Staff Writer
Google

Global mobile Internet data traffic is forecast to increase 18 times from 2011 to 2016, to 10.8 exabytes per month (or 130 exabytes annually). Recently, Cisco issued results of the annual Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011-2016), the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyze Internet protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide. The VNI Internet Forecast update covers 2011-2016, and quantitatively projects the significant amount of IP traffic expected to travel public and private networks, including Internet, managed IP, and mobile data traffic generated by consumers and business…

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More IPv4 exhaustion alerts as ICANN address pool dwindles

The impending exhaustion of the IPv4 address space has been raised as an issue once more by ICANN, as it begins allocating the remaining blocks of addresses to the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). According to ICANN, this move signals that the global supply of IPv4 addresses is now reaching a critical level. With more and more devices coming online, especially with new trends such as the Internet of Things, the demand for IP addresses continues to rise, and IPv4 is incapable of supplying enough to meet demand, ICANN said.…

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IPv6 Adoption Critical for the Preservation and Growth of the Internet

Staff Writer

DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The number of available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses is declining rapidly and will soon leave businesses and individuals worldwide who have not yet adopted the new IPv6 protocol with limited options for connecting new devices to the global Internet. To help ensure this does not happen, the Internet Society Colorado Chapter and the Rocky Mountain Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Task Force (RMv6TF) have joined forces to advance deployment of IPv6. On April 17, 2013, the Internet Society-organized INET Denver will co-locate with the 2013 North American…

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Global Internet Connection Speeds: America lags far behind leaders

Staff Writer

If ‘Internet connection speed’ was an Olympic event, the USA wouldn’t even get a medal. In fact, America would finish somewhere between 9th and 24th, depending on the exact event – I mean comparison. This assessment comes from a recent Akamai report on “The State of the Internet.” According to this CNN article, which commented on the report, Hong Kong takes Internet speed title: source

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