According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast (2012-17),
- In India, Internet traffic will grow 6.4-fold from 2012 to 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 45%.
- In India, peak Internet traffic will grow 8.5-fold from 2012 to 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 53%.
- In India, Internet traffic will reach 2.5 Exabytes per month in 2017, up from 393 Petabytes per month in 2012.
- India's Internet traffic will be 83 Petabytes per day in 2017, up from 10 Petabytes per day in 2012.
- India's Internet traffic in 2017 will be equivalent to 8 billion DVDs per year, 629 million DVDs per month, or 861,446 DVDs per hour.
- In 2017, the gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will cross the Internet every 2 hours.
- Indian Internet traffic in 2017 will be equivalent to 125x the volume of the entire Indian Internet in 2005.
- In India, Internet traffic will reach 2 Gigabytes per capita in 2017, up from Gigabytes per capita in 2012.
- In India, average Internet traffic will reach 8 Tbps in 2017, the equivalent of 6,380,000 people streaming Internet HD video simultaneously.
- In India, busy hour Internet traffic will reach 21 Tbps in 2017, the equivalent of 17,840,000 people streaming Internet HD video simultaneously.
In India, Internet video traffic is predicted to raise 11-fold by 2017.Currently,we all know that low-cost schemes like one rupee per video are offered in the market. Cisco has predicted that internet video users in India will increase more than seven times by 2017.