As discrete manufacturing and machine controls become inexorably entangled in networking, mobile connectivity and their ilk, we run into staggering estimates of the technology's overwhelming stranglehold on everything. "The Internet of Things" is becoming the Internet of Everything.
In February this year, Cisco published its Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, part of an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications on global networks. The article presents some of Cisco's major projections and growth trends.