Torquest folded the technology into a privately held firm called Global Traffic Technologies, which has the lion's share of the signal preemption market.
It is conceivable that Goldman's trading systems could siphon off a sizable enough chunk of global traffic to rival, say, the New York Stock Exchange.
The biggest reason for the discrepancy, though, is the different way the two companies measure numbers on global traffic, and how they crunch the numbers.
Africa had the highest regional accident rate in 2010 of 16.8, four times the global average, but Africa accounts for the lowest percentage of global traffic volume.
The Financial Times is ranked around 800 in global traffic.
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According to Cisco, the global cloud traffic will grow at an annual rate of 45% and reach 4.3 zetabytes by 2016, while global data center traffic will grow to 6.6 zetabytes.
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Mexico's large surplus is partly reflected in America's deficit: the route between Mexico and the United States is the second busiest for international traffic, after the route between Canada and the United States, according to the annual survey of global telecommunications traffic statistics, just published by TeleGeography, a consultancy.
According to Cisco, global Web traffic surges an average 27% during World Cup matches.
The system depended on a central brain that would analyze global Internet traffic patterns to identify friend from foe.
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Global passenger traffic has risen by 6%, faster than the long-term trend.
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The company cites a Cisco prediction that by 2015, annual global Internet traffic will cross the one zettabyte level, a fourfold increase from 2010 levels.
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But in second place in global web traffic are The Times of India and its sister publication, The Economic Times of India, not the Wall Street Journal or any Chinese newspaper for that matter.
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These findings expand on the Cisco Global Cloud Index, which predicts that more than 50% of computing workloads in data centers will be cloud-based by 2014, and that global cloud traffic will grow over 12 times by 2015, to 1.6 zettabytes per year.
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The world is on track to generate more data traffic associated with hydrocarbon production than the total amount of global consumer Internet traffic of just a few years ago.
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According to the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, CAGR for mobile data traffic is expected to be around 108%.
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The average amount of data used on a smartphone tripled from 2010 to 2011, according to Cisco's Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update.
Boeing (BA) announced Tuesday that it expects global air cargo traffic to triple by 2029, with 5.9% annual growth over the next twenty years.
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Global airline passenger traffic is on track for double-digit growth this year as a rebounding Chinese market leads broader expansion by carriers in Asia and the Middle East.
From 2003 to 2010, global airport passenger traffic increased 40%.
The amount of mobile data traffic generated by tablets in 2016 (1 exabyte per month) will be four times the total amount of monthly global mobile data traffic in 2010 (237 petabytes per month).
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Projections now (once again) have us filling the oceanic cables up with data within the next five or so years, and for the global carriers of Internet traffic, the demand growth is finally rising fast enough to make up for their annual price declines.
For Google, software defined networking represented a better way of moving traffic between its global data centers.
Interest rates and bond yields are the traffic lights of the global economy: they tell economies when to go and when to stop.
Slowly, over a decade Skype has taken up a good portion of the global, especially transatlantic, call traffic, and is a leader in VoIP calling, though not a leader in quality.
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This is one reason international bodies such as the United Nations hold occasional global forums like the Internet Governance Forum or the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Conference on International Telecommunications to talk about coordinated strategies to keep traffic flowing on our global highway.
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But Global Times reports over 2, 000 traffic accidents in Beijing from wet weather yesterday.
These routes are changing rapidly reflecting the often short-lived global communication patterns and longer term storage traffic.
"We do all of the hard work of transcoding and hosting and streaming and thumbnailing your videos, and we provide open access to our sizable global audience, enabling you to generate traffic for your site, visibility for your brand or support for your cause, " reads a statement in the company's blog.
We need global cooperation to help thwart attacks and keep traffic moving.
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