Video will make up 82% of all internet traffic (Cisco)
Outdated Confidence: high
Source found and quoted correctly, but old enough that the market has changed.
- Commonly cited as
- "Video is 82% of internet traffic" (as current)
- True origin
- Cisco — Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Trends, 2017–2022 White Paper (updated Feb. 27, 2019)
- Type
- Stat check: A widely repeated statistic traced back to its origin.
- Year
- 2019
- Data as of
- Forecast for 2022, made in 2018–2019
- Last checked
- What the source says
Globally, IP video traffic will be 82 percent of all IP traffic (both business and consumer) by 2022, up from 75 percent in 2017.
- Method & sample
- Cisco forecast model; not a measurement. Cisco's later Annual Internet Report (2018–2023) does not repeat a video-traffic share.
- Drift between quote and source
- Type: a forecast quoted as a measurement
- Date: the forecast year (2022) has passed and Cisco stopped publishing this forecast
- Scope: all IP traffic, not just the public internet
- Interest
- Cisco sells networking equipment whose demand rises with traffic.
Safe rephrasing
Cisco forecast in 2019 that video would be 82% of global IP traffic by 2022; it was a projection and Cisco no longer updates it.
Sources we opened
Machine-readable: /api/claims/video-82-percent-internet-traffic-cisco.json · Last checked 2026-10-16