Wireless networks will support 12 billion devices and IoT connections by 2022: Cisco

SAN JOSE — Mobile data traffic by 2022 will represent almost 20% of global IP traffic and will reach 930 exabytes (almost a zettabyte) annually, which is nearly 113 times more than all global mobile traffic generated just 10 years prior, in 2012, according to Cisco’s latest Mobile Visual Networking Index forecast.According to this year’s forecast update (for 2017–2022), there will be more than 12 billion mobile-ready devices and IoT connections in 2022, up from about nine billion mobile-ready devices and IoT connections in 2017. Breaking down the 2022 figure, more than eight billion personal mobile devices and four billion...