The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update is part of the comprehensive Cisco VNI Forecast, an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications on global networks.
The Cisco VNI Forecast projects an 18-fold growth in global mobile data traffic between 2011 and 2016. Mobile data traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 78% from 2011 to 2016, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month by 2016.