Internet traffic

Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks.

As of June 2008, Cisco Systems estimates the internet traffic at about 7 Exabyte per month (≈160 TB per second). They also expected traffic to exceed 44 Exabyte per month (≈1.1 PB per second) by 2012.