Africa outperforms in SWIFT traffic

Data from SWIFT shows that its payment business in Africa has outperformed the total growth of the business globally.In the year to date, African payment traffic volumes grew by 13,2% versus 8,8% growth for SWIFT worldwide, highlighting the sustainable growth in the...

Top five apps dominate network traffic

Two-thirds of all app data traffic over mobile networks comes from the top five apps in each country, with video streaming and social networking dominating. These are among the findings of the Ericsson Mobility Report, which says that, in the countries illustrated in...

NAPAfrica hits 20Gbps traffic

NAPAfrica recently announced that it has achieved its goal of becoming one of Africa’s largest Internet exchanges, and is reaching a throughput of 20Gbps with more than 180 members across its locations in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Established in 2012,...

Gumtree is SA’s biggest Web site

Gumtree has been named as South Africa’s biggest Web site by Effective Measure – the official online audience measurement supplier of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (formerly the DMMA). Gumtree is the most trafficked South African Web site based on...

World Cup drives Internet video traffic

Global IP (Internet protocol) traffic will increase nearly three-fold over the next four years due to more Internet users and devices, faster broadband speeds and more video viewing.