A Snapshot of Global Internet Traffic

What's the status of global Internet traffic? Growing in both usage and capacity and coming down in price, according to TeleGeography's (News - Alert) Global Internet Geography study. The study is a comprehensive source of data and analysis about international Internet capacity, traffic, service providers and pricing. It measures the market for international Internet services, broken out by region, each year.

The newest report has yielded some interesting results

The newest report has yielded some interesting results and painted a broad picture of international Internet traffic. This year's study has also highlighted some surprises when the data are broken out by geography.

Overall global Internet traffic rose 56 percent in 2010; however, capacity grew to handle the traffic. Carriers added 13.2 Tbps of new international Internet capacity. Network utilization remained stable.

Internet traffic in Africa has grown, but still lags very far behind the rest of the world. All of Africa combined had about one-third as much international Internet connectivity as as a small European nation (Austria was used an an example in the executive summary.)