Cisco Sees Rise in Data Center Traffic Through 2018

Data center traffic likely will triple over the next five years, Cisco predicted in its Global Cloud Index. The cloud is expected to represent 76 percent of total data center traffic, it said Tuesday in a news release. In 2013, the cloud accounted for 54 percent of data center traffic, it said. By 2018, 53 percent of all residential Internet users globally will use personal cloud storage, it said. The average consumer cloud storage traffic per user will be 811 MB per month by 2018, “compared to 186 megabytes per month in 2013,” it said. Countries with the best fixed network performance this year include Japan, the Netherlands and Taiwan, it said. Countries with the best mobile network performance this year include China, Denmark and Uruguay.