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In 2022, consumers at home will need over seven times as much data traffic as they do now, according to research conducted by Dialogic in collaboration with Eindhoven University of Technology. As of 2016, the average daily internet traffic per household is over two gigabytes. A quarter of this is 'up' (towards the internet), and three-quarters is 'down' (from the internet).
The majority of the growth comes from a more intensive use of current internet applications. The research also takes into account an increasing data usage for completely new internet services. A relatively small part of the growth is due to the increasing adoption of existing services.
The need for upload traffic will rise slightly faster (44% per year) than the need for download traffic (40.5% per year). The requested download speed will remain significantly higher in absolute terms than the requested upload speed. Furthermore, the traffic will, over time, experience fewer peaks. In other words, usage will be more evenly spread out throughout the day. One possible explanation for this is that the use of streaming video services, with spread out data traffic, is increasing at the expense of peer-to-peer file sharing, where, for example, an entire movie is downloaded all at once.
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