Video usage in both high-speed fixed line and wireless mobile networks has increased dramatically over the last few years. The increase in Internet and mobile video has kept pace.

RadiSys (News - Alert) recently issued an informative whitepaper useful for anyone seeking to understand and profit from this trend. It explains that mobile telecommunications is the growth engine of the telecommunications industry - "3G mobile network infrastructures are being deployed at a rapid pace around the globe, with the capabilities and bandwidth to finally deliver captivating video services to handheld mobile devices."

While the consumption of 1-way video streaming services continues to grow, the paper finds, interactive two-way video telephony services based on 3G-324M standards "present unique operational challenges for economical mass market deployment."

The paper - you'll have to download it for all the goodies - shows how mobile operators can deliver high ARPU interactive, conversational video services in their current networks using a combination of 3G-324M technology in the wireless part of their mobile network and IP media servers in the core.

"And as 3G mobile operators evolve their networks to an end- to-end, all-IP network infrastructure, we will show how capital investments made in 3GVS delivery components today -- 3G-324M compatible network elements and IP media servers -- will remain intact," the paper's authors say.

To underscore the necessity, it looks at IP network usage projections recently published in a Cisco (News - Alert) report, "Cisco VNI Forecast: 2008- 2013," finding that a "sixfold Increase in IP network usage between 2007 and 2012 is due mainly to video and social networking."

Not only that, but Internet video is now approximately one-third of all consumer Internet traffic -- not including P2P video file sharing, and according to the report, "the sum of all forms of video, TV, video on demand, Internet, and P2P, will account for over 91 percent of global consumer Internet traffic by 2013."

Still not convinced? Internet video communications traffic will increase tenfold from 2008 to 2013, the study found: "While Internet video usage is growing incredibly fast, it is the following growth in mobile video usage that is accelerating even faster right behind it."

In addition, almost 64 percent of the world's mobile data traffic will be video by 2013 and mobile video will grow at a CAGR of 150 percent between 2008 and 2013.