Over the past three years, the Cisco Visual Networking Index has become a highly regarded measure of the Internet’s growth. National governments, academic researchers, telecommunications companies, technology experts and the business press have all taken a keen interest in what the company’s annual study has to say about our digital future.
Interesting to note how mobile data and video and impacting internet growth.

“Device influence” is one of their toughest challenges these days. More and more types of communications devices, from smart phones to video chat tools, are hitting the market. Anticipating the effect of such never-before-seen technology is difficult. Growth of iPad 3G, 4G phones, or new unanticipated devices such as a mobile phone service called digital photo frames has virtually overnight created a surge of new subscribers and traffic.