Explosion in mobile data bandwidth usage will continue, say two reports

BOSTON and SAN JOSE – Two reports issued this week both predict that the surge in mobile data traffic will not slow any time soon, due in large part to the proliferation of mobile-ready devices and widespread mobile video content consumption.Allot Communications’ MobileTrends: Global Mobile Broadband Traffic Report found that worldwide mobile data bandwidth usage increased by approximately 72% during the second half of 2009, due in large part to over-the-top applications such as YouTube and Skype.The Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Forecast for 2009-2014 projects that annual global mobile data traffic will reach 3.6 exabytes per month...