THE FUTURE X NETWORK A BELL LABS PERSPECTIVE

Inside Bell Labs, we have explored the limits of
Leading us to the age of
current technologies,
architectures and solutions
“do it for yourself”
with a view of 2020 and beyond. And what we
found is that we are at the dawn of an era in
networking that will define the
future of new
human existence
View the digital guide to
the Future X Network at:
Where any service or process will
be personalized and contextualized
through virtualization and software
defined networks and services.
Allowing the connectivity
of anyone to
anything, anywhere,
on demand
bit.ly/FutureXguide
THE FUTURE
X NETWORK
A BELL LABS
PERSPECTIVE
Enabling a new digital era
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We are on the verge of a
TECHNOLOGICAL
Maximizing the performance of humans and machines
100x
66x
That will be defined by the
CONNECTION
revolution
Growth in daily wireless
connection requests (31T vs. 0.3T)
Growth in wireless cellular
capacity (20Gbps vs. 3Gbps)
of everything and everyone
A confluence of technology and human needs is rebalancing the demand
of Consumer and Enterprise into a common need.
47%
Consumer
of traffic will be IoT video (vs. 1%)
Global service providers
Enterprise
NOW
NOW
10
2025
250x
Growth in global annual
network energy spend
($343B vs. ~$95B)
Gain in spectral
efficiency by
massive MIMO
60x
40x
Growth in number of connected
devices powered by renewable
energy (32B vs. ~0.5B)
Gain in heat transfer
efficiency due to
liquid cooling
VPN
620x 19x
1k
Growth in data
analyzed
(9.3ZB vs. 15 EB)
Human
decisions
augmented per day (vs.
10k total decisions per day)
Growth in
unstructured data
available for analysis
(133ZB vs. 7ZB)
NOW
2.5
0%
26
2025
10x
vs.
Time to initiate a human
thought (vs. 1 ns for one
smartphone operation)
Computations in a
smartphone (vs. time taken
for 1 human thought)
vs. >
800
69%
Global in network traffic
NOW
1TB
20TB
used per U.S. person
NOW
vs.
61%
133 trillion
100
100%
Cloud assisted or
U.S. devices
1ZB
2000x
dependent
13ZB
vs.
Growth in router
switching speeds
(5Tbps vs. 500Gbps)
250
quadrillion
27
2025
2025
10x
WiGig and 5G wireless access
connections
Growth in objects in
public clouds
100x
Growth in fixed
>10x
Improvement
access speeds
(10Gbps vs. 100Mbps)
in network latency
(<10ms vs. 100+ms)
To allow the virtualization and automation of
339
hours
Automating life by optimizing decision-making along with
everyday routines and processes
8B
100
Growth in digital
storage per capita
Growth in devices
183
hours
400%
2025
400%
Investment return
in high customer satisfaction
companies between 2015-2025
85%
Increase in global
monthly video consumption
per household
BUSINESS AND MARKETS
200% (S&P)
NOW
20ms
~5
2025
20x
Employee connections with global
software defined-VPN
59%
Augmenting our intelligence with knowledge
vs.
NOW
The cloud is moving into the network and the network is
moving into the cloud.
Maximizing the efficiency of everything we do
4x
Local service providers
2025
We are entering the era of virtual existence, comprised of
virtual spaces and networks creating and delivering digital goods.
30x
Growth of commercial
drone global shipments
(3M vs. 0.1M)
<$0.001
33x
Cost of
information
in a Guttenberg bible (vs. $150K in year 1400)
Growth of U.S.
3D printed parts
($33B vs. $1B)