"As global mobile traffic approaches the
zettabyte era, we believe that 5G and Wi-Fi will coexist as necessary and complementary access technologies, offering key benefits to our enterprise and service provider customers to extend their architectures.
The amount stored worldwide rose from three
zettabytes in 2012 to 16
zettabytes in 2016.
By 2016, Global IP traffic is projected to exceed one
zettabyte (1000 exabytes), and expand to 1.6
zettabytes per year by 2018, or roughly 131 exabytes (1000 gigabytes) per month.
Industry analyst IDC predicts that 1.8
zettabytes of data (a
zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes) will be generated in 2012, a nine-fold increase in just five years.
By 2016, as per the study, annual global traffic is set to hit 1.3
zettabytes -- each
zettabyte being equal to 1 trillion gigabytes or sextillion bytes.
Summary: Today Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced the results of the annual CiscoEeA Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, which projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4 of a
Zettabyte, by 2014.
Beyond that is the terabyte, the petabyte, the exabyte and the
zettabyte, each 1,000 times larger than the last.
The company said that the system incorporates in-line deduplication capabilities for its
Zettabyte File System (ZFS), allowing customers to reduce their use of primary storage.
With global IP traffic expected to increase six-fold by 2012 -- driven largely by video content -- service providers are faced with passing over a
zettabyte of data across their networks.
* Solaris ZFS (
zettabyte file system)--automates common administrative tasks, protecting data from corruption, and providing virtually unlimited scalability.
Overcoming The Weakest Link In
Zettabyte Infrastructure Delivery