Monday, June 23, 2008

Consumer Video Drives 1/2 of Bandwidth by 2012

If Cisco is correct, and bandwidth keeps growing about 50 to 60 percent a year, and consumers keep adding video behaviors, then the easy extrapolation is that half of global bandwidth will be used for consumer video apps of one sort or another by 2012.

The challenge for wide area network and access providers is that video provides very-low revenue per bit, compared to any other service.

Lots more bandwidth, provided very economically, is going to be the business challenge.

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