The continuous explosion of video and mobile traffic drove 4.7 zettabytes, or almost five trillion gigabytes of data center traffic in 2015, per Cisco’s Global Cloud Index. Every kilobyte of external traffic entering the data center generates approximately 930 kilobytes of internal traffic, and almost 80% of that traffic is East-West or remains within the data center, subject to the risk of bandwidth bottlenecks.

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