A recent study has revealed that India is set to be a leader with highest Internet Protocol (IP) traffic growth rate with a 44-per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during 2012-2017.
It is expected that India would be followed by Indonesia and South Africa with 42-per cent CAGR and 31-per cent CAGR, respectively over the forecast period. As far as overall Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is concerned, it will generate the most IP traffic by 2017 (43.4 exabytes/month), maintaining its top position from last year.
Cisco has recently forecasted in its Visual Networking Index (VNI) that global IP traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017.
The study also revealed that there would be more than 19 billion global network connections (fixed/mobile personal devices, M2M connections), while the number was 12 billion in 2012.
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