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UHD TV to Drive Networking Bandwidth in Zettabyte Era

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jun 12, 2014

For 2018, Cisco is now forecasting that bandwidth consumption will reach 1.6 zettabytes. In its 2013 VNI forecast, Cisco had predicted that bandwidth consumption in 2017 would reach 1.4 zettabytes. A zettabyte is equal to 1000 exabytes, which is one sextillion bytes.

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