The
Middle East and Africa (MEA) have been projected by the Cisco Visual
Networking Index (VNI) to continue to be the fastest growing Internet Protocol (IP) traffic region
from 2012 – 2017
The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) present forecast showed MEA
as maintaining the lead following its fivefold growth, representing 38 per cent
compound annual growth rate over the forecast period as well as the fastest growing region last
year attaining 10-fold growth or 57 per cent compound annual growth rate
for 2011 to 2016 forecast period in this category.
DigitalSENSE Business News discovered from the report that global
Internet protocol (IP) traffic will grow three-fold
between 2012 and 2017, while forecast in MEA shows the IP traffic would grow
from 2012 to 2017 representing10 billion DVDs per year, 866 million DVDs per
month, or one million DVDs per hour.
The report explained graphically that “Consumer
Internet traffic grew 83 per cent in 2012 and business Internet traffic grew 63
per cent in 2012. In 2017, the gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will
cross Middle East and Africa’s IP networks every two hours.
“10 per cent of consumer Internet traffic was mobile in
2012, and 31 per cent of consumer Internet traffic will be mobile in 2017
whilst five per cent of business Internet traffic was mobile in 2012,
and 14 per cent of business Internet traffic will be mobile in 2017.
“Consumer fixed Internet traffic grew 80 per cent in
2012 and was 53 per cent of total IP traffic in 2012, and will be 48 per cent
of total IP traffic in 2017. Internet-Video-to-TV traffic increased three-fold
in 2012.”
The report says that by 2017, there will be
about 3.6 billion Internet users—more than 48 per cent of the world’s projected
population (7.6 billion). In 2012, there were 2.3 billion Internet users—about
32 per cent of the world’s population (7.2 billion).
... Making SENSE of digital revolution!
*With additional report from Nigerian Communication Week
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