Trends that will shape the growing demand for fibre across the Middle East and Africa are the focus for CommScope during GITEX 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the focus on a post-oil era, it\u2019s no surprise the region is in the early stages of the greatest transformation of networking yet,\u201d said Ehab Kanary, vice president of Enterprise, Middle East and Africa, CommScope.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time as exponential growth in video, mobility and cloud are revolutionising how we connect to each other. CommScope is helping organisations across the Middle East and Africa plan for the future as communications technology evolves at an astounding rate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Below are four key trends shaping the region\u2019s growing need for fibre, based on insights from customers and partners.<\/p>\n
Innovation across industries creates economic imperative<\/strong><\/p>\n As the region embraces economic diversity, governments are investing in non-oil industries to diversify their sources of income .\u00a0 Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are taking steps to position themselves as financial technology hubs, while the Dubai government is focusing on increasing productivity across healthcare and construction .<\/p>\n The airline industry is experiencing growth \u2013 the region is set to be the fastest growing in the world\u00a0 with places like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain experiencing increased airline traffic .\u00a0 The UAE has its own space program; it plans to expand satellite efforts and launch the first Mars probe in the Arab World .<\/p>\n Millennial entrepreneurs are driving changes in tomorrow\u2019s network\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n A recent report by HSBC Private Bank suggests that the Middle East is home to the highest proportion of millennial entrepreneurs in the world \u2013 63% of the business owners they screened in the Middle East were age 35 or under.\u00a0 Mobile phone use is almost at 100 % among millennials in the region.<\/p>\n The rise of applications requiring low latency <\/strong><\/p>\n Network latency is even more critical in today\u2019s information age, where delay is often measured in milliseconds rather than days. The UAE is well placed to lead the worldwide autonomous revolution given Dubai\u2019s smart city goals combined with a young and tech-savvy population.\u00a0 The value of the region\u2019s augmented reality and virtual reality market is expected to be $6 billion by 2020, according to GITEX.<\/p>\n Middle East and Africa\u2019s demand for bandwidth is rising exponentially <\/strong><\/p>\n According to a Google report, watch time on YouTube is growing by 60% year-on-year in this region while 69% of consumer internet traffic will be video, according to Cisco.\u00a0 A total of 93% of the region\u2019s 193 million monthly Facebook users access the software from mobile phones while 62% of young Arabs \u2013 those aged 18-24 \u2013 use WhatsApp on a daily basis .<\/p>\n CommScope adapts to fibre demands through innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n As the world embarks on a potential fourth Industrial Revolution, it is the 30 billion to 50 billion connected devices that will spur the unprecedented growth in bandwidth. The next few years are critical to building the networks that will meet the demand. In anticipation of this need, CommScope, a leader in communications network infrastructure solutions, is preparing the Middle East and Africa for decades of increased bandwidth.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Middle East is encouraging investment in high capacity networks as leaders see fibre as the infrastructure of the 21st century.\u00a0 High speed fibre broadband and cellular connectivity supports economic growth and an improved quality of life for everyone, as users expect fast and reliable connectivity anywhere, anytime from their devices,\u201d said Femi Oshiga, vice president of service providers, CommScope Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n \u201cCommScope\u2019s combination of fibre and wireless technology will meet the needs for today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s expanding bandwidth demands.\u201d \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trends that will shape the growing demand for fibre across the Middle East and Africa are the focus for CommScope during GITEX 2017. \u201cGiven the focus on a post-oil era, it\u2019s no surprise the region is in the early stages of the greatest transformation of networking yet,\u201d said Ehab Kanary, vice president of Enterprise, Middle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,331,106,809,185],"tags":[458,924,427,3733,184],"class_list":["post-19820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabling","category-cloud","category-mobile","category-more-news","category-uae","tag-bahrain","tag-commscope","tag-egypt","tag-gitex-2017","tag-uae"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24836,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820\/revisions\/24836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}