The Internet is made up of thousands of public and private networks around the world. And since it came to life in 1984, more than 4.7 zettabytes of IP traffic have flowed across it. One zettabyte is approximately equal to a thousand exabytes, a billion terabytes, or a trillion gigabytes. In India alone, IP networks carried 108 petabytes of data per day in 2017 and are expected to reach 646 petabytes per day by 2022. This is primarily driven by the growth in the number of smartphone users, said the report.
By 2022, smartphones will account for 44 per cent of total Internet traffic, up from 18 per cent in 2017.
In 2018, PCs accounted for 41 percent of total IP traffic, but by 2022 PCs will account for only 19 per cent of IP traffic, the research showed. Saying that more traffic will be created in 2022 than in the 32 years since the Internet started, the report added that India will be a major driver of this with the total number of Internet users reaching 840 million (60 per cent of the population) by 2022 from 357 million (27 per cent of the population) in 2017. (IANS)
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