If you ever use a modern computer device, you must be familiar with the term ‘Gigabyte’, ‘Terabyte’, and perhaps even ‘Exabyte’. In less than 3 years, we’re all probably going to be hearing a new term called ‘Zettabyte’ a lot. At least on the Internet. This is because according to a research conducted by Cisco, the world’s annual usage of Internet data will surpass a thousand exabytes threshold. For those who are not familiar with exabyte term, 1 exabyte is about 1,024 terrabytes, which is also called a ‘Zettabyte’.

To put things into perspective, if you have a digital music player, 1 Zettabyte is roughly equal to about 2 billion years of music! That’s a lot! But, what makes Internet Data usage rockets to such amount? – This interesting infographic below from XO Communications will show you the elements that will make up the extraordinary amount of internet data. How much will contribute the first zettabyte?