[Fourlanders] FW: exabyte

[Randal DePriest]

I think it's 10^18 bytes... That's 1 with 18 zeros!



On 6/9/09 7:47 PM, "Jim Worsham" <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I saw this at work today.  I didn't know what an exabyte was so I looked it
> up,  1018 bytes!
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> 73
> 
> Jim, W4KXY
> 
> Cisco Says Internet Video to Explode - Internet traffic will increase
> fivefold over the next five years, driven in large part by a jump in the
> amount of video transmitted across the network, according to Cisco Systems.
> The finding highlights a study of the demand on communications networks
> between 2008 and 2013 the company will release Tuesday. By 2013, Cisco
> expects Internet traffic to reach about 56 exabytes per month, up from about
> 9 exabytes per month in 2008. More than 90 percent of this traffic will come
> from video. Another place where Cisco predicts the amount of data will
> explode is mobile, increasing 66 times by 2013.
> <http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/06/09/cisco-says-internet-video-to-explode
> /?mod=rss_WSJBlog?mod=> The Wall Street Journal (Digits blog), online.
> 
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