Internet Could Run Out of Capacity in Two Years

[Jimmy 2004]

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:

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.

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[DaMulta]

Everyone just needs to stop downloading porn, and we will not see any problems for years to come.

 

[WhiteLotus]

porn is actually the biggest thing on the net, that and spam, AFAIK

 

[das müffin mann]

ohh DaMulta you know we just cant stop downloading porn we need to be slowly weened off of it

 

[Grimskull]

thats alot of porn........... and no we cant stop downloading it or weened off it!!!!!! hurray for porn........all those long cold lonely nights..............

 

[hat]

How many gigabytes is an exabyte?

 

[Random Murderer]

let's see here... myspace, facebook, xanga, youtube, google videos, break... all useless, that's gotta be a buttload of bandwidth by itself.

 

[Fuse-Wire]

How many gigabytes is an exabyte?

probably like 1,000,000 Terabytes!! clist knows and you can't stop downloading porn, for every 1 who stops downloading 6 start

 

[hat]

Let's all kill myspace.

 

[Random Murderer]

How many gigabytes is an exabyte?

well, 1024 GB is a TB(terabyte), 1024 TB is a PB(petabyte), and 1024 PB is an EB(exabyte)

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Just install the flux capacitor and dial in the desired bandwidth.

 

[hat]

so 1024x1024x1024 = one PHAT ASS number.

 

[Fuse-Wire]

youtube must go, keep redtube though

 

[lemonadesoda]

This is OLD NEWS.

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

 

[black light burns]

so 1024x1024x1024 = one PHAT ASS number.

1073741824

 

[black light burns]

This is OLD NEWS.

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

if they do that than it would take hours to download porn

 

[Widjaja]

This is OLD NEWS.

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

Yeah just like something was supposed to happen in 2000

 

[JC316]

myspace, youtube, and porn at the primary problems. I don't know how many random, useless videos I have seen on youtube, it's terrible.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

myspace, youtube, and porn at the primary problems. I don't know how many random, useless videos I have seen on youtube, it's terrible.

and reposts .. 10 of the same video ...

at my school the banned all social networks ... bam! free bandwith.

 

[kwchang007]

Hmm that would suck if we actually ran out..but I'm betting on that being a big fat no.

 

[mdm-adph]

Funny... what's that smell?

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).

 

[Nicksterr]

Funny... what's that smell?

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).

What are you talking about? Unless you use voip or other critical packet services, you should have QoS disabled in your windows networking options. You especially don't want to have it on if you fileshare.

 

[Ravenas]

I'm sure this new hd you-tube won't help this situation.

 

[WarEagleAU]

Wow, thats a heck of a lot of storage. I nevereven heard of an exabyte until this news post.

 

[Random Murderer]

Wow, thats a heck of a lot of storage. I nevereven heard of an exabyte until this news post.

that's not even the biggest unit of storage, either! 1024 EB is a ZB(zetabyte), and 1024 ZB is a YB(yottabyte). 5 EB can hold the equivalent of every word ever spoken on earth since the beginning of time
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