A visitor looks at television programmes during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes, southeastern France, Oct. 13, 2008.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Video will be the overwhelming majority of Internet traffic in the next few years, U.S. network giant Cisco predicted Monday.

"In the near future, 90 percent of consumernetwork traffic will be video and rich media," Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of Cisco's Emerging Technologies group, said in a statement.

Forecasts released by the company showed that by 2012, professional or traditionalbroadcast video content will become 80 percent of all Internet video viewed on PCs or laptops.

The company also predicted that traffic associated with user-generated video content will triple from 2008 to 2012.

"Video is a transformational force in the world today," said Tony Bates, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Service Provider business group. "We are seeingconsumers and enterprises embracing the power of video to foster better communications, entertainment and information gathering."

Anticipating the trends, Cisco on Monday unveiled Media Experience 3000, a device that can instantly convert any video signal to work on everything from a large high-definition television to a mobile-phone screen.

The hardware connects to a network and can seamlessly format video for viewing on any device, the company said.