DATA DEMANDS WILL INCREASE not only because of the increase in new data exchanges. According to Cisco, users, but also because data-intensive by the year 2019 more than 10 billion services grow as connection speeds devices will exchange an estimated increase, and people become more 35 quintillion bytes of information per comfortable with smaller screens (which month. (We don’t have room for all of the is definitely the case). From a consumer zeros here, but for the record, a quintillion perspective, video is by far the No. 1 is a million raised to the power of 5.) You driver for exponential growth in data heard about the traffic jams in New York demand. when the Pope visited? That’s going to be a picnic compared to the radio-wave At the same time, the growth of the IoT congestion caused by the increase in will produce more connection points and connected devices in the IoT. 45
