Hypecycle: Turning data into dollars

Mobile devices and networks

Informa says there were 526 million smartphones on networks last year, 94 million mobile-connected notebooks and 3 million mobile-connected tablets. The amount of data they will traffic will hit 6.3 exabytes a month in 2015 about the same time there will be a mobile device for each person on Earth, Cisco says.

President Obama committed the US to 98 percent coverage of 4G wireless networks in about five years, which may outpace predictions for mobile data traffic.

Mobile digital information devices from smartphones to e-book readers and tablets and will now come with wireless connectivity whether wi-fi or cellular networks to capture, create and curate information.

75 exabytes annual data projected to flow over mobile networks in 2015, Cisco

Video

Much of the data being generated is video data and of high quality. When even basic smartphones have high-definition cameras in them it’s easy to see that this content, no matter how well compressed, takes a lot of bandwidth.

The company building Australia’s NBN has often pointed to video as a driver of network capacity and Cisco has declared all end points in its vision of the future should have video.

From the free Skype to high-end telepresence of Cisco, Tandberg and LifeSize, video communications will come to represent up to three- quarters of all data transmitted across wired and mobile networks in five years, Cisco says.

Companies: Cisco, Polycom, LifeSize, Skype, Tandberg