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

据《商业内幕》网站报道，根据思科发布的互联网使用报告，世界杯期间将打破互联网流量纪录。

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.

世界杯本周开始，将生成4.3艾字节（二的十六次方）的IP流量，简直是令人难以置信，就等同于整个巴西三个月内产生的流量量。

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，思科称6万人在一个足球场产生的移动数据流量，将超过巴西高峰时期所拥有的9400万智能手机用户。这也并不很让人震惊，因为大多数巴西智能手机用户也有可能在网上收发信息，而从世界各地来访的球迷将上传和查看大型图像和视频文件。

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."

为了让我们更好地了解这一情况，思科的报告随后分解了未来的互联网使用量：观看世界杯和流媒体电视网的《权力的游戏》。

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

该公司预测，到2018年世界杯，将会有132艾字节的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

这就相当于：88亿人视频观看4K高清直播的世界杯决赛，同时55亿人观看第四季高清的“权力的游戏” ，还观看4.5万亿YouTube视频剪辑。

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.

如果想在可测量的条件范围内分解这些数据，那就是94亿亿（940 quadrillion）条短信。目前的预测估计，到2018年世界人口约为75亿，所以使用整个互联网看2018年世界杯似乎遥不可及。

（译者 shltt 编辑 齐磊）