Tuesday, November 20th 2007
Internet Could Run Out of Capacity in Two Years
A new study by Nemertes Research Group, released on Monday, suggests that consumer and corporate internet use could overload the current web capacity and lead to problems such as online blackouts in as little as two years. This comes after a sudden rise in the popularity of new web content such as video sites like YouTube, music downloads and peer-to-peer file sharing. Internet users are expected to create 161 exabytes of new data this year - to put that into perspective, one Exabyte is approximately equivalent to 50,000 years of DVD-quality video. The group's co-chairman Bruce Mehlman said the following:
Source:
Macworld
Video has unleashed an explosion of Internet content. We think the exaflood is generally not well understood, and its investment implications not well defined.The research suggests that internet providers need to invest as much as $137 billion in new capacity (double what was already planned), with investments of $42 to $55 billion needed in North America alone in the next three to five years.
48 Comments on Internet Could Run Out of Capacity in Two Years
And no, it will not "bring the internet down". All that needs to happen is that the ISP's provide QoS to different services, ie. highest priority to VoiP, second to email, lowest priority to downloading and streaming. It's easy to do.
THE SKY WILL NOT FALL DOWN
at my school the banned all social networks ... bam! free bandwith.
Oh -- it's anti-net-neutrality FUD. Smells like horseshit.
Simple QoS will fix this "bandwidth crunch," but you won't hear anything about that, since all ISP's want to do is eventually tier the internet (keeping you in places that sponsors pay for).
see what you learn when you take the A+ certification course?