I have no idea why people put word blockchain in everything, it looks like blockchain is a magic word that's used instead of Abracadabra, I wouldn't even be surprised if magicians say Blockchain while doing tricks. I think that increase mostly comes from former Soviet Republics because in these countries, a lot of people don't had access on PC and internet, there was DSL in most of these countries for a long time and we can say that fiber is new for them.
It doesn't come from there.
First, they don't have the population for that, the whole URSS had barely 290 million people at it's highest and more than 20 million have fled to either Europe or Asia. Second, some of them, like the Baltic countries were more advanced when it comes to internet speed even by 2010 than most countries, check Estonia for example. As for the rest of the states, excluding Ukraine and Russia most are still too poor to have such an influence.
The growth comes from everywhere, in Asia with a billion people getting internet access and in the western countries with higher quality video streaming and more and more applications requiring internet access.
From the CISCO article:
Globally, Internet video traffic will grow 4-fold from 2015 to 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 31%.
Globally, Internet video traffic will reach 127.8 Exabytes per month in 2020, up from 33.7 Exabytes per month in 2015.
Globally, total Internet video traffic (business and consumer, combined) will be 79% of all Internet traffic in 2020, up from 63% in 2015.
Globally, Ultra HD will be 15.7% of Internet video traffic in 2020, up from 2.3% in 2015 (92.0% CAGR).
As for the blockchain thing, another stupid article.
How can a thing that needs the internet to function will be able to solve internet capacity productions?
The blockchain is great for storing data safely, when it comes to communicating that data to others it's extremely ineffective.
