HONG KONG--()--Informa estimates that users in Asia Pacific generated approximately 67,000 petabytes (PB) of Internet traffic in 2010 and forecasts that this volume will rise to almost 530,000PB in 2015.
This volume means that the region’s users generated, on average, 7.1GB of traffic per month in 2010, which will rise to 31.2GB in 2015.
“Traffic in Asia Pacific is very much a tale of two regions. Developed Asia Pacific, which Informa defines as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand, features countries with some of the fastest broadband infrastructure in the world. The rest of the region is much less developed in terms of infrastructure but, principally down to China and India, will be a huge contributor to traffic because of the sheer number of Internet users in the region,” Giles Cottle, Principal Analyst from Informa Telecoms & Media said.
Giles goes on to add: “Asia Pacific is already the largest region for Internet traffic and by 2015 it will account for 42% of the world’s Internet traffic. Asia Pacific Developing in its own right will be the second biggest region, after North America, in 2015. Informa expects it to overtake the US in 2016.”
More of Giles’ market analysis on internet traffic in the APAC region can be seen by reading the CDN Asia brochure. Please download the CDN Asia brochure by clicking on the link.
In his role as Principal Analyst, Giles Cottle heads up Informa’s coverage of broadband content and devices. His team’s key research themes include internet traffic, connected device sales and usage, digital content economics and partnerships between internet and content providers and operators.
Leveraging on the strength and establishment of the CDN World Summit, Informa Telecoms and Media is now launching CDN Asia. This will be a highly targeted event focusing on CDN developments and expansion across Asia and will bring together under one roof top executives from leading operators and content providers from across this high growth continent such as Telstra, Tata Communications, MTV, Pacnet, Korea Telecom, PlayJam, VNPT and many more.
The event will be sponsored by Solution Box and Tata Communications.
Analysts, Press Journalists and Editors are welcome to attend for free. To register for a complimentary press pass online, visit: http://cdnworldsummitasia.com/press-registration/.
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