Cisco projects that mobile Internet traffic will double every year between now and 2013, when it will total an average of 2.2 million terabytes per month.
Cisco also predicts that the biggest driver for the traffic increase will come from video, which will account for roughly 64 percent of all mobile data traffic in 2013.
In 2008, video traffic averaged around 13,000 TBytes per month, or roughly 39 percent of all mobile traffic. By 2013, video traffic will increase by more than 100 times and will average around 1.3 million TBytes per month, Cisco projects.
All of that has obvious implications for Long Term Evolution network backhaul investment and facilities. Verizon, for example, believes it will be able to use its FiOS fiber to the home facilities to support mobile backhaul of 1 Gbps or so.
Tags: 1 Gbps, backhaul, lte, mobile video, Verizon
