The FIFA World Cup is going to shatter internet traffic records, according to Cisco's State of the Internet Report.

據《商業內幕》網站報道，根據思科發布的互聯網使用報告，世界杯期間將打破互聯網流量紀錄。

The global soccer tournament, which begins this week, is predicted to generate a mind-boggling 4.3 exabytes of IP traffic. That's the same amount of traffic the entire country of Brazil (the World Cup's host country) generates in three months.

世界杯本周開始，將生成4.3艾字節（二的十六次方）的IP流量，簡直是令人難以置信，就等同于整個巴西三個月內產生的流量量。

What's more, Cisco claims that the mobile traffic generated by 60,000 people in a soccer stadium will surpass the busy-hour traffic of Brazil's 94 million smartphone users. This isn't as shocking because most Brazilian smartphone are more likely to get online for messaging, whereas visiting soccer fans will be uploading and viewing large image and video files.

此外，思科稱6萬人在一個足球場產生的移動數據流量，將超過巴西高峰時期所擁有的9400萬智能手機用戶。這也并不很讓人震驚，因為大多數巴西智能手機用戶也有可能在網上收發信息，而從世界各地來訪的球迷將上傳和查看大型圖像和視頻文件。

The Cisco report then breaks down future internet usage in terms we can understand: watching the World Cup and streaming HBO's "Game of Thrones."

為了讓我們更好地了解這一情況，思科的報告隨后分解了未來的互聯網使用量：觀看世界杯和流媒體電視網的《權力的游戲》。

The company predicts 132 exabytes of traffic by 2018, which it claims is equivalent to:

該公司預測，到2018年世界杯，將會有132艾字節的IP流量：

8.8 billion people streaming the World Cup final (on 4K HDTVs) simultaneously

5.5 billion people watching Season 4 of "Game of Thrones" in HD simultaneously

4.5 trillion YouTube clips

這就相當于：88億人視頻觀看4K高清直播的世界杯決賽，同時55億人觀看第四季高清的“權力的游戲” ，還觀看4.5萬億YouTube視頻剪輯。

In case you wanted to break down that data in measurable terms, that's 940 quadrillion text messages. Current projections put the world population at around 7.5 billion by 2018, so using the entire internet to watch the 2018 World Cup seems out of reach.

如果想在可測量的條件范圍內分解這些數據，那就是94億億（940 quadrillion）條短信。目前的預測估計，到2018年世界人口約為75億，所以使用整個互聯網看2018年世界杯似乎遙不可及。

（譯者 shltt 編輯 齊磊）