LJ Index, November 2007
- Average measured speed in MBps of a broadband connection with "up to 8Mbps" download speed: 2.7
- Lowest measured speed in KBps of a broadband connection with "up to 8Mbps" download speed: 90
- Number of consumers out of five who get the broadband speed they signed up for: 1
- Percent of surveyed consumers who have felt misled by providers' advertising: 30
- Billions of Internet users in 2006: 1.1
- Additional millions of Internet users expected by 2010: 500
- Millions of video streams per day served by YouTube: 100
- Number of surveillance cameras in London: 200
- Trillions of bits sent by London surveillance cameras to their data center: 64
- Terabytes accumulated per day by Chevron: 2
- Total exabytes of data in 2006: 161
- Multiple in millions of 2006 data total to all information in all books ever written: 3
- Percentage of the digital universe that will be created by individuals by 2010: 70
- Percentage of the current digital universe that is subject to compliance rules and standards: 20
- Percentage of the current digital universe that is potentially subject to security applications: 30
- Exabytes of "user-generated content" expected by 2010: 692
- Total exabytes of data expected by 2010: 988
- Percentage of the 2010 digital universe for which organizations will be responsible for security, privacy, reliability and compliance: 85
- Exabyte capacity of media ready to store newly created and replicated data in the 2010 digital universe: 601
- Year in which the amount of information created will surpass available storage capacity for the first time: 2007
Sources: 1-4 David Meyer for ZDNet UK (sources -- 1-2, which.co.uk , and 3-4, moneysupermarket.com), 5-20, "Expanding the Digital Universe", a March 2007 IDC white paper by by John F. Gantz, et. al.
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