Manama IX records solid data traffic growth for 2020
MANAMA, 5 hours, 30 minutes ago Manama Internet Exchange (Manama-IX), the Bahrain-based Internet peering service provider, said it has witnessed booming data volumes over the past year. The traffic is primarily driven by bandwidth-hungry applications, Internet usage, gaming, video streaming, content delivery, IoT, big data and AI technology. Over the last 12 months, the Manama-IX platform s traffic has witnessed a 20-fold growth, primarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with growth rates anticipated to continue well into the future, making it the fastest growing Internet exchange platform in the region since its inception in 2019. To address growing Internet traffic and meet the demand from members of the platform, additional resources and capacities were added to the Manama-IX, thereby allowing more traffic exchange over the platform by Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), Cloud Providers and Gaming Netwo