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In 2022, consumers will need over seven times as much data traffic at home compared to now, as shown by 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 goes 'up' (towards the internet), and three-quarters '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 can be attributed to the increasing adoption of existing services.
The need for upload traffic will rise slightly faster (44% per year) than that for download traffic (40.5% per year). The requested download speed will still be significantly higher in absolute terms than the requested upload speed. Furthermore, the traffic will have fewer peaks over time. In other words, usage will be more evenly spread out throughout the day. One possible explanation is that the use of streaming video services, with distributed 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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