Mobile video will take the center stage in 2013 and is expected to grow phenomenally. Rapid growth has been recorded in year 2012 as shown in various indices and reports, including the Cisco Virtual Networking Index (VNI), Adobe Digital Index and Ericsson Mobility Report. Nitin Bhandari, co-founder of Skyfire, a cloud-based mobile video optimization company, shares the key trends for 2013:
The Surge In Mobile Video Usage Won't Let Up
"While Cisco's oft-quoted 2013 Visual Networking Index evoked some chirping due to some slight downward revisions, it still showed that global mobile data traffic grew by 70 percent in 2012 alone, reaching 885 petabytes per month (up from 550 petabytes/month in 2011). 50 percent of network bandwidth was video, and Cisco projects that will grow to 66 percent of all consumed bandwidth by 2017"
SDN (Software-Defined-Networking) and the Cloud to become Core to Network Strategy
"SDN and cloud-based network management answer a gaping need for powerful, infinitely flexible and dramatically lower-cost tools, in an era when mobile networks live and die by their ability to cope with the massive amounts of data being pulled across them"
Surgical Optimization that Focuses on User Experience and Network Capex Takes Center Stage
"Now that cloud-based tools exist to optimize video traffic in real-time down to the individual session level, expect to see a wholesale embrace by mobile operators of innovative, surgical optimization tools that keep their customers with them, and not churning off to a competitor"
Source - SiliconIndia (April, 2013)
