Internet Traffic to Rise Three-Fold by 2018— Cisco

On 24 billion screens at the same time; 940 quadrillion text messages; and 4.5 trillion YouTube clips.”
The Cisco VNI Middle East and Africa (MEA) highlights has it that IP traffic will grow five-fold to 2018, a compound annual growth rate of 38 per cent.
It says Internet traffic will grow 5.5-fold from 2013 to 2018, a compound annual growth rate of 41 per cent, and IP video traffic will grow seven-fold from 2013 to 2018, a compound annual growth rate of 48 per cent.
“Internet video traffic will grow eight-fold from 2013 to 2018, a compound annual growth rate of 50 per cent.
“HD will be 19.6 per cent of IP Video traffic in 2018, up from 6.9 per cent in 2013 (82.3 per cent CAGR),” it read.
The Cisco VNI report noted that mobile data traffic will grow 14-fold from 2013 to 2018, a compound annual growth rate of 70 per cent, and that there will be 2.0 billion networked devices in 2018, up from ‘.3 billion in 2013.
“Fixed/Wi-Fi will be 6o percent of total IP traffic in 2018; while there will be three million Internet households (5.1. percent of all Internet households) generating more than 100 gigabytes per month in 2018, up from 438,224 in 2013,” it added.

‘Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Needed To Combat Cybercrime’
Ozionia Ubabukoh
The Nigerian Communications Commission has said that multi-stakeholder partnership will bring about robust public policies required to combat cybercrime in the country.
It said this in Lagos while answering questions bordering on the increasing utilisation of Internet facilities in the country, and the attendant rise in online attacks.
The Executive Vice Chairman, Eugene Juwah, said the global economic loss due to cybercrimes and cost of system repairs, because of cyber attacks, run into billions of naira annually.
Juwah, therefore, called for collaborative efforts by relevant government agencies, specifically towards the implementation of Domain Name System Security Extension on the top level Domain Name System in order to address identified vulnerabiities of the DNS system.
The NCC boss pointed out that DNSSEC provides an additional level of security that can strengthen trust in Internet usage. According to him, the DNSSEC could help protect browsers from redirection to fraudulent websites through effective integrity and authenticity checks on DNS protocols.
He said, “Capacity building in the area of cyber security is necessary for the development of sustainable and proactive national cyber security culture.”
Juwah said one fundamental challenge of cyber security was effectively educating the end user to be aware of, and understand the potential dangers inherent in the cyberspace.
He said cyber threats such as malware, spoofing, phishing, spam, worms, viruses, hacks, trojans, pharming, among others, were becoming more sophisticated.
“The Internet has long ceased to be the exclusive domain of the technically savvy users. User-friendly software and interfaces enable all types of users, including novices and children, to interact remotely,” he said.
This new territory, he noted, contains a goldmine of valuable information for potential victims.
“Although national measures are being taken by individual nations, cyber threats remain basically an international problem.’’
Juwah also stated that the Internet is indeed a borderless communication tool and consequently, any solution to secure it must involve global collaboration.

Closing Date:
2018