Metro Network Traffic to Increase 560% by 2017

摘要

The data traffic on metropolitan access and aggregation networks will increase by 560% and video traffic will increase 720% by 2017, according to a Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs study. The study showed that by 2017 more than 75% of that traffic will stay in metro networks, as compared to 57% today. "The cloud and data center traffic - consumer connections to data centers and interconnection between data centers will increase 440% by 2017. Total Metro traffic will grow approximately two times faster than traffic going into the backbone network by 2017," according to a study. By 2017, 75% of total traffic will terminate within the metro network and 25% of traffic will traverse the backbone network as video, data, and web content are increasingly sourced from within metro networks.