The ways we use and communicate information are changing so fast that it can be tough to keep your enterprise network at the performance levels the business needs to stay competitive . So I’m going to warn you about four challenges to network performance you cannot afford to ignore:
1 Growth in data traffic – and data speed
Annual global IP traffic is increasing by 24% per year . Yearly data traffic will hit 3.3 zettabytes – that is, 3.3 trillion gigabytes – by 2021, up from “just” 1.2 zettabytes in 2016.
Meanwhile, broadband speeds will nearly double by 2021 , reaching 53.0 Mbps, up from 27.5 Mbps in 2016.
2 Arrival of 5G
Game-changing fifth-generation (5G) Wi-Fi is nearly upon us with such capabilities as…
