Cisco Predicts Video Will Dominate IP Traffic

A Light Reading article has Cisco tables that gives their forecast for global IP traffic out to 2012. This forecast makes the following conclusions:

• Internet IP traffic dominates but non Internet IP will grow more quickly
• Consumer IP traffic dominates and will grow faster than business IP traffic
• Telco IPTV will be one of the fastest growing sources of metro IP traffic

This study confirms our analysis that Telco IPTV services will become a significant factor in carrier metro IP networks.