Since 2009 There Was A 500% Increase In Internet Traffic.

[hoaryal1]

Since 2009 There Was A 500% Increase In Internet Traffic. Today, The Average Household Has More Than 7 Internet-Connected Devices, By 2020 There Will Be 6.58 Connected Devices Per Person. With A 7.5 Billion Global Population, That’s 50 Billion Devices.

Huge Pressure after a 500% Increase since 2009
The Average home has 7 Internet Connected Devices

And yet we still expect and need more from the internet with data consumption still surging 22% a year. We’re 20 years into the internet Millenium, the .com bubble is a distant blip on the radar, but for many people, the internet remains temperamental, slow and expensive.

Sure we can use the telephone at the same time as the internet, god bless broadband. Despite this, we still experience slow delivery of data especially when the whole country is online. The Demand is indeed exponentially growing as is expected and with a current infrastructure built on a patchwork of copper wire, fiber and satellite, demand is

People want more internet and more cloud storage. We don’t use floppy disks, cd ROMs or even external hard drives to store our data anymore. Data is heavy, precious and entrusted to large centralized data centers. With all this demand these centers can’t cope. Users can’t access their data with simultaneous efficiency. outstripping growth blockchain companies are looking to provide an answer



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[shield132]

I have no idea why people put word blockchain in everything, it looks like blockchain is a magic word that's used instead of Abracadabra, I wouldn't even be surprised if magicians say Blockchain while doing tricks. I think that increase mostly comes from former Soviet Republics because in these countries, a lot of people don't had access on PC and internet, there was DSL in most of these countries for a long time and we can say that fiber is new for them.
Also in some countries internet is expensive but at the same time there is a huge bandwidth usage because of pirate websites (multiple upload of different movies, games and etc for each website).

[squatz1]

I have no idea why people put word blockchain in everything, it looks like blockchain is a magic word that's used instead of Abracadabra, I wouldn't even be surprised if magicians say Blockchain while doing tricks. I think that increase mostly comes from former Soviet Republics because in these countries, a lot of people don't had access on PC and internet, there was DSL in most of these countries for a long time and we can say that fiber is new for them.
Also in some countries internet is expensive but at the same time there is a huge bandwidth usage because of pirate websites (multiple upload of different movies, games and etc for each website).

Cause that's the buzzword of todays tech companies. They use Blockchain like it's this magic word that's going to help with the growth of their company. People don't even understand what the word means, they just see BLOCKCHAIN -- and they think WOW IT'S GONNA BE LIKE BITCOIN OR SOMETHING.

While all that really means is that they're using some sort of internally hosted server / database. It's not like a blockchain that everyone is going to be able to see, cause that would be stupid -- no company would want to do that.

Ugh.

[audaciousbeing]

Since 2009 There Was A 500% Increase In Internet Traffic. Today, The Average Household Has More Than 7 Internet-Connected Devices, By 2020 There Will Be 6.58 Connected Devices Per Person. With A 7.5 Billion Global Population, That’s 50 Billion Devices.

The basis of this data for me is largely skewed in the sense that there are households mostly in the developed world where a family can have more than 10 internet enabled devices for a family of 5. But using that as a statistics to predict for the entire world is largely over reaching as there are several families spread across the world that internet enabled devices there is not up to 2 because the lack of infrastructure, poverty level, low education among other factors that have continued to mitigate against such penetration.

[merchantofzeny]

I have no idea why people put word blockchain in everything, it looks like blockchain is a magic word that's used instead of Abracadabra, I wouldn't even be surprised if magicians say Blockchain while doing tricks. I think that increase mostly comes from former Soviet Republics because in these countries, a lot of people don't had access on PC and internet, there was DSL in most of these countries for a long time and we can say that fiber is new for them.
Also in some countries internet is expensive but at the same time there is a huge bandwidth usage because of pirate websites (multiple upload of different movies, games and etc for each website).

"Blockchain" and "crypto" is this century's "radioactive". They've got radioactive toothpaste, we've got blockchain toothbrush. (Yes, look those two up, they're real).

Though I think blockchain can be used to distribute information (I always think of it as sort of a torrent but each user don't need the entire file to start seeding), I don't think we'd be using it as a replacement for the internet any time soon. We put ALOT of personal things on the internet, do we really want those files spread out to everyone?

[stompix]

I have no idea why people put word blockchain in everything, it looks like blockchain is a magic word that's used instead of Abracadabra, I wouldn't even be surprised if magicians say Blockchain while doing tricks. I think that increase mostly comes from former Soviet Republics because in these countries, a lot of people don't had access on PC and internet, there was DSL in most of these countries for a long time and we can say that fiber is new for them.

It doesn't come from there.
First, they don't have the population for that, the whole URSS had barely 290 million people at it's highest and more than 20 million have fled to either Europe or Asia. Second, some of them, like the Baltic countries were more advanced when it comes to internet speed even by 2010 than most countries, check Estonia for example. As for the rest of the states, excluding Ukraine and Russia most are still too poor to have such an influence.

The growth comes from everywhere, in Asia with a billion people getting internet access and in the western countries with higher quality video streaming and more and more applications requiring internet access.

From the CISCO article:

Globally, Internet video traffic will grow 4-fold from 2015 to 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 31%.
Globally, Internet video traffic will reach 127.8 Exabytes per month in 2020, up from 33.7 Exabytes per month in 2015.
Globally, total Internet video traffic (business and consumer, combined) will be 79% of all Internet traffic in 2020, up from 63% in 2015.
Globally, Ultra HD will be 15.7% of Internet video traffic in 2020, up from 2.3% in 2015 (92.0% CAGR).

As for the blockchain thing, another stupid article.
How can a thing that needs the internet to function will be able to solve internet capacity productions?
The blockchain is great for storing data safely, when it comes to communicating that data to others it's extremely ineffective.

[DarkDays]

Today, The Average Household Has More Than 7 Internet-Connected Devices, By 2020 There Will Be 6.58 Connected Devices Per Person.

Based on those statistics, this means the average household contains barely more than 1 person?

1.064 people per household if my calculations are correct (using your data).

That seems suspiciously low to me, unless we're also talking unoccupied property.

[Mihaylovic]

I have no idea why people put word blockchain in everything, it looks like blockchain is a magic word that's used instead of Abracadabra, I wouldn't even be surprised if magicians say Blockchain while doing tricks. I think that increase mostly comes from former Soviet Republics because in these countries, a lot of people don't had access on PC and internet, there was DSL in most of these countries for a long time and we can say that fiber is new for them.
Also in some countries internet is expensive but at the same time there is a huge bandwidth usage because of pirate websites (multiple upload of different movies, games and etc for each website).

Cause that's the buzzword of todays tech companies. They use Blockchain like it's this magic word that's going to help with the growth of their company. People don't even understand what the word means, they just see BLOCKCHAIN -- and they think WOW IT'S GONNA BE LIKE BITCOIN OR SOMETHING.

While all that really means is that they're using some sort of internally hosted server / database. It's not like a blockchain that everyone is going to be able to see, cause that would be stupid -- no company would want to do that.

Ugh.

Actually it has an opposite effect in my country. If a company would say that they have a development based on blockchain technology, probably they would be blamed about trying to scam or fraud.

[Hydrogen]

Shortages of internet bandwidth and reliable infrastructure have always been artificial in nature.

ISP's like AOL devoted budgets towards GUI, eye candy and user experience while completely ignoring infrastructure maintenance or upgrades. This trend contrasts with ISP's in nations like korea and japan who have pursued the opposite approach in terms of prioritizing infrastructure development, greater average line speed and reliability over user experience.

Any bandwidth crisis which might exist could be defined as regional in nature and an end product of questionable business philosophy.

At some point, Elon Musk realized companies paying Space X to put internet satellites in space were making more money than Space X was. This realization motivated Musk to enter the internet satellite business himself.

With Elon Musk now planning to put an additional 30,000 internet satellites in orbit, it should stave off any bandwidth limitation concerns.

[squatz1]

Today, The Average Household Has More Than 7 Internet-Connected Devices, By 2020 There Will Be 6.58 Connected Devices Per Person.

Based on those statistics, this means the average household contains barely more than 1 person?

1.064 people per household if my calculations are correct (using your data).

That seems suspiciously low to me, unless we're also talking unoccupied property.

This just further proves that the article is kinda stupid. You're unable to read it because its poorly written.

I have no idea why people put word blockchain in everything, it looks like blockchain is a magic word that's used instead of Abracadabra, I wouldn't even be surprised if magicians say Blockchain while doing tricks. I think that increase mostly comes from former Soviet Republics because in these countries, a lot of people don't had access on PC and internet, there was DSL in most of these countries for a long time and we can say that fiber is new for them.
Also in some countries internet is expensive but at the same time there is a huge bandwidth usage because of pirate websites (multiple upload of different movies, games and etc for each website).

Cause that's the buzzword of todays tech companies. They use Blockchain like it's this magic word that's going to help with the growth of their company. People don't even understand what the word means, they just see BLOCKCHAIN -- and they think WOW IT'S GONNA BE LIKE BITCOIN OR SOMETHING.

While all that really means is that they're using some sort of internally hosted server / database. It's not like a blockchain that everyone is going to be able to see, cause that would be stupid -- no company would want to do that.

Ugh.

Actually it has an opposite effect in my country. If a company would say that they have a development based on blockchain technology, probably they would be blamed about trying to scam or fraud.

Hm. Interesting, what country is that? I know in the US, and most western countries theres going to be a VERY large difference between saying that your company uses and likes Cryptocurrency and that they use the Blockchain.

[JeffBrad12]

Since 2009 There Was A 500% Increase In Internet Traffic. Today, The Average Household Has More Than 7 Internet-Connected Devices, By 2020 There Will Be 6.58 Connected Devices Per Person. With A 7.5 Billion Global Population, That’s 50 Billion Devices.

The basis of this data for me is largely skewed in the sense that there are households mostly in the developed world where a family can have more than 10 internet enabled devices for a family of 5. But using that as a statistics to predict for the entire world is largely over reaching as there are several families spread across the world that internet enabled devices there is not up to 2 because the lack of infrastructure, poverty level, low education among other factors that have continued to mitigate against such penetration.

never underestimate the rest of the world more speciifcally third world countries with the fact that there are many smartphone providers actually giving out really cheap phone offers and people with poverty usually compensate the lack of owning PC or laptops with smartphone which could easily increase the amount of internet connected devices in a household. The data in my opinion by any means is not skewed.

[STT]

I think that increase mostly comes from former Soviet Republics because in these countries, a lot of people don't had access on PC and internet, there was DSL in most of these countries for a long time and we can say that fiber is new for them.

The strange thing is the former soviet block countries or similarly disadvantaged economies in totalitarian type regimes have the ironic advantage of sometimes no telecoms at all prior to joining the fibre link.   Its possible for the new generation of previously backward countries now leap frogging the 1st world richest countries, the very richest countries have been on the net for 30 years and wasted the headstart to some extent.   Now even worse they have aging infrastructure which is some obstacle vs the clear slate of new entrants to the internet who use fibre as the best choice rather then legacy copper cable.

smartphone providers actually giving out really cheap phone offers

In india they have the cheapest net access of almost any country worldwide but they are lacking the hardware and reliable electricity quite often (also coverage I bet is not good in poor areas).   Its quite a strange situation of saturation, with one of the worlds fastest growest and youngest populations many companies then over compete to capture that audience; however the relatively high entrance fee is the hardware cost vs low income levels.    The average western consumer is far more profitable a subject at present, it seems to be a bit of a logjam to development though a few are trying to bring very cheap smart phones.

[hatshepsut93]

People want more internet and more cloud storage. We don’t use floppy disks, cd ROMs or even external hard drives to store our data anymore. Data is heavy, precious and entrusted to large centralized data centers. With all this demand these centers can’t cope. Users can’t access their data with simultaneous efficiency. outstripping growth blockchain companies are looking to provide an answer

Some decentralized blockchain projects require decentralized storage, but decentralized storage doesn't need blockchain to work. In fact, blockchain is undesirable there, because it's redundant, inefficient, doesn't scale well. Also, centralized data stores will generally be faster and have more capacity, the point of decentralized ones is censorship resistance, which comes with tradeoffs.

[merchantofzeny]

The increase in traffic is mostly due to countries now developing and starting to have stable electricity and phone lines. The creation of the smartphone also played a big part. Even people who can't afford a desktop would be able to go online and engage.

I can't see ways blockchain would help with this currently. From my understanding, with blockchain everyone "hosts". Imagine all that we do on the internet now, how much size that would take.

[Duzter]

When there is increase in population it is hard to fulfill the needs with the hand written process. To the growing population there is need for technology to move forward. This is where internet gets the importance, through internet everything gets interconnected making everything possible within seconds. Apart from this people are much used to the smartphone usage making the internet traffic high.

[hugeblack]

It is better to link the ease of access to the Internet and the multiplicity of devices with the digitization of payment methods, be it centralized, decentralized or using blockchain.
Blockchain will not solve Internet problems, but it may contribute to fewer complications when we talk about transferring money, and fees can also decrease dramatically.

Also, the speed of the Internet affects the number of full nodes, and hence the increase in decentralization.

[coin-investor]

When there is increase in population it is hard to fulfill the needs with the hand written process. To the growing population there is need for technology to move forward. This is where internet gets the importance, through internet everything gets interconnected making everything possible within seconds. Apart from this people are much used to the smartphone usage making the internet traffic high.

Yeah I agree in the past people can only access the internet when they are on their desktop and on their laptop but since the creation of smartphone, and wifi, people now can access the internet anywhere and at all times, this is one of the contributing factors why we have huge and an increase in internet traffic.

[webtricks]

People want more internet and more cloud storage. We don’t use floppy disks, cd ROMs or even external hard drives to store our data anymore. Data is heavy, precious and entrusted to large centralized data centers. With all this demand these centers can’t cope. Users can’t access their data with simultaneous efficiency. outstripping growth blockchain companies are looking to provide an answer

Some decentralized blockchain projects require decentralized storage, but decentralized storage doesn't need blockchain to work. In fact, blockchain is undesirable there, because it's redundant, inefficient, doesn't scale well. Also, centralized data stores will generally be faster and have more capacity, the point of decentralized ones is censorship resistance, which comes with tradeoffs.

Exactly!
There is a common misconception among people regarding blockchain technology. They think it's some kind of fairy tale magic which can make any internet use-case better. But that's not always right. Blockchain Technology is not optimizable everywhere especially when we are concerned with speedy data transmission. Blockchain Technology requires some extra computation work like Proof of Work in order to validate blocks and enhance security. But involving blockchain unnecessary will only leads to waste of resources.

I have also created thread couple of days ago to know what people think Blockchain Technology is:   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215595.msg53544680#msg53544680

[cotton ball]

Most people without know about how old they are know whit internet and make access whit game and watching youtube and many social media can access by using internet, many country try to give friendly way for their people with internet speed and give most easy way how internet become most benefit for every people, but have bad effect if parent no control with his child internet access.

[abeecrypto]

Hmm! Any small thing, Blockchain Blockchain. You do know Blockchain isn’t that efficient, right?. Decentralized data storage systems are cool. It is quite easy to talk about how blockchain is going to solve this problem or any other problem. But how viable is it? Does it have to be with blockchain? Many times, no.