Akamai observes internet traffic growth to ease to pre-pandemic levels in 2021

Akamai observes internet traffic growth to ease to pre-pandemic levels in 2021: As per Akamai Technologies Inc., the global internet traffic growth is likely to ease to pre-pandemic levels in 2021 which was fuelled by the lockdown in 2020.

 

As per news source, Tom Leighton, Chief Executive at the Global Content Delivery Network said that while a lot of changes-preference for e-commerce and remote working-could become permanent, overall internet traffic growth would stabilise. “Our business was geared to supporting this, and we have accelerated our efforts,” he said.

 

Though things start to normalise next year, Leighton expects new areas to drive growth in internet traffic. According to him, remote learning will get more popular, as will online collaboration.

 

“Things we are seeing now will become much more permanent. For instance, It will be a long time before you have 1,000 people packed into a room for a marketing event,” said Leighton.

 

In 2020, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company added 100 terabytes of capacity per second, and will continue to invest in supplementing this capacity and increasing performance. Cyber security is another important focus area for the company as it sees an increase in cyber threats globally.