According to the Cisco Annual Internet Report 2018-2023, over seventy percent (70%) of the global population will have mobile connectivity by 2023 and much of that traffic will require access to latency-sensitive streaming content or cloud-hosted services. Service Providers must satisfy this growing demand from networked devices with more than just bandwidth augments: they will need to utilize advanced traffic engineering techniques like Segment Routing to maintain the experience requirements of the consumer and content providers.

The growth in latency-sensitive traffic and the move to cloud services will fuel increased bandwidth requirements in every section of the network: edge, aggregation, and core. To keep up with this dynamic and mobile consumption, networks should be built to scale actively with demand and provide network engineers with the ability to implement network slicing and traffic policies that prioritize certain traffic while ensuring the most efficient use of network resources.

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