GEC NEWS WIREAccording to the 11th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index Complete Forecast for 2015 to 2020, global IP traffic will nearly triple at a compound annual growth rate of 22 percent over the next five years. The Middle East and Africa region will see a 6-fold growth in IP traffic, which is the highest at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 41 percent by 2020.
Over the next five years, global IP networks will support up to 10 billion new devices and connections, increasing from 16.3 billion in 2015 to 26.3 billion by 2020. There are projected to be 3.4 devices and connections per capita by 2020—up from 2.2 per capita in 2015.
“One of the most significant changes of the next few years will be the dramatic increase in worldwide connectivity via the Internet. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than across the Middle East and Africa where we are looking at the highest growth rate in the world with 2.4 billion new devices and connections to be added by 2020,” said Mike Weston, Vice President, Cisco Middle East.
In Middle East and Africa, Internet video traffic will grow 8-fold from 2015 to 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 52%. This means that for MEA 169 billion minutes (321,793 years) of video content will cross the Internet each month in 2020. That’s 64,359 minutes of video streamed or downloaded every second.
