Is the Internet Ready to Break?
The growth of video and broadband access will require new investment, technology and thinking to keep it healthy according to a report in Baseline by Edward Cone. The story is based on a report by the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) group at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. The report itself notes under “Reaching the limits of cyberspace” that “[t]he assumption that bandwidth cost must continue falling endlessly may have to change if the Internet is not to run out of capacity in 2007. Traffic volume is likely to continue growing rapidly throughout the year, and the rate of growth may even accelerate sharply, due to the growing transmission of video files.” On the expansion of net traffic, the Baseline story notes “[t]he report notes that daily traffic at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange … will reach two petabytes by October, almost double the usage in February 2006; traffic at the Amsterdam exchange for all of 2007 is expected to reach one exabyte, ‘equivalent to 500 times the data stored in all U.S. research libraries.'”
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