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  "id": "video-82-percent-internet-traffic-cisco",
  "slug": "video-82-percent-internet-traffic-cisco",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/video-82-percent-internet-traffic-cisco/",
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  "claim": "Video will make up 82% of all internet traffic (Cisco)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Video is 82% of internet traffic\" (as current)",
  "verdict": "outdated",
  "verdict_definition": "Source found and quoted correctly, but old enough that the market has changed.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 3,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Cisco",
    "title": "Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Trends, 2017–2022 White Paper (updated Feb. 27, 2019)",
    "year": "2019"
  },
  "quote": "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": "Cisco forecast model; not a measurement. Cisco's later Annual Internet Report (2018–2023) does not repeat a video-traffic share.",
  "drift": [
    "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": [
    {
      "title": "Cisco VNI Forecast 2017–2022 (Internet Archive copy, 2020)",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2019/https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/white-paper-c11-741490.html",
      "primary": true
    },
    {
      "title": "Cisco Annual Internet Report 2018–2023 (no video-share figure)",
      "url": "https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/executive-perspectives/annual-internet-report/white-paper-c11-741490.html",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "Forecast for 2022, made in 2018–2019",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}