This statistic offers a forecast for data center IP traffic growth from 2013 to 2021, by segment. In 2016, the amount of data center traffic in the business segment was around 2,319 exabytes per year.
Global data center IP traffic from 2013 to 2021, by segment
(in exabytes per year)
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Global data center IP traffic from 2013 to 2021, by segment
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* Forecast The estimated percentage of traffic remaining within the data center is the result of Cisco’s direct measurements of data center traffic, but similar concepts and ratios have appeared in academic studies of datacenter traffic.
Consumer: Traffic originating with or destined for personal end-users
Business: Traffic originating with or destined for business end-users
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Cisco Systems. (February 1, 2018). Global data center IP traffic from 2013 to 2021, by segment (in exabytes per year) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 21, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/227295/global-data-center-ip-traffic-growth-by-segment/
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