The machines are talking a lot

February 15, 2012
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(Credit: Cisco)

Cisco has released its annual analysis of how much Internet usage is growing on mobile devices, and the report produced some staggering numbers, says Technology Review Editors blog.

Cisco expects 7.6 exabytes of data flowing to mobile devices per month in 2016, about 70 percent of the total of 10.8 exabytes of data per month. (An exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes.)

The second-leading source of the expected surge in traffic: from machine-to-machine communications, or “M2M.”