Data traffic on metropolitan access and aggregation networks...
Data traffic on metropolitan access and aggregation networks will increase by 560 percent between now and 2017, said Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs Tuesday in a study. Metro networks’ data traffic will grow primarily due to demand for video and continued proliferation…
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of data centers, Bell Labs said. Traffic from video services alone will grow 720 percent by 2017, while data center traffic will rise 440 percent, the study said. Video services are increasing their local delivery of content over metro networks, meaning that by 2017 about 75 percent of traffic originating on metro networks will completely stay on those networks rather than access content through a backbone network. About 57 of metro network traffic remains on the network now, Bell Labs said (http://bit.ly/18flqhF).