The Zettabyte Era
If you need another reason to complain about data caps—we’re looking at you, Comcast—consider that combined Internet traffic is expected to top the zettabyte mark this year, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index, an ongoing survey of web traffic and trends.
What is a zettabyte? It’s equivalent to around:
- 1,000 exabytes
- 1,000,000 petabytes
- 1,000,000,000 terabytes
- 1,000,000,000,000 gigabytes
- 1,000,000,000,000,000 megabytes
These are rounded measurements, mind you, but you get the idea—a zettabyte is a lot of data, enough to fill about …read more
