Cisco: 81% of UAE organisations expect AI to push network capacity to its limits

New research, released by Cisco in partnership with Foundry, reveals that organisations in the UAE have approximately three years before AI-driven network traffic increases significantly across key AI workloads, network capacity reaches its limit, and attack surfaces expand beyond what current defences can manage. The study, based on a survey of 200 IT leaders in the UAE (and 3,472 across the world), confirms that the rapid rise of large language models (LLMs) and the emerging wave of agentic AI