Online traffic is expected to grow nine-fold to 14.4 exabytes by 2015 from 1.6 exabytes in 2010, a report from US based technology company Cisco has said.

The traffic is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 54 per cent during the five years to 2015, the report said.

An exabyte is equivalent to 1 billion gigabyte (GB). A DVD at present has capacity to store over 4 GB data and can easily store four bollywood movies of two hours each.

On comparing the projected data, Cisco said that the load of data on internet network in India in 2015 will be equivalent to 3 billion DVDs per year, 273 million DVDs per month, or 374,372 DVDs per hour.

This will be 53 times increase in Indian internet traffic entire Indian Internet volume in 2005.

During busy hour internet traffic will reach 11 Terabyte per second in 2015 which the report estimated to be equivalent of 9,030,000 people streaming Internet High Definition video simultaneously.

The report predicted that mobile data traffic in India will grow 114-fold from 2010 to 2015 at CAGR of 158 per cent.

"There will be 1 billion networked devices in 2015, up from 570 million in 2010," the report said.

With increase in data demand, Cisco report estimated that the average broadband speed will grow 4.1 fold from 0.9 megabyte per second (mbps) to 4 mbps in 2015.

In India, the average Internet user will generate 7.7 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month in 2015, up by 434 per cent from 1.4 gigabytes per month in 2010.

Cisco Visual Networking Index report estimated that there will be 1 million Internet households in India that will generate more than 100 gigabytes per month in 2015.

On global there will be 6 million Internet households worldwide in 2015 generating over a terabyte per month in Internet traffic, up from just a few hundred thousand in 2010.