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Internet close to full capacity
Stuart O'Brien Apr 25 2008, 10:47am
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AT&T claims the architecture of the internet will reach its limit by 2010.
This makes for interesting reading in light of all the recent mobile broadband launches: AT&T has warned that the internet will reach the capacity of its current network architecture by 2010 if it is not supported with investment.
The firm’s vice president of legislative affairs claimed that an increase in video and user generated content will be too much for the current infrastructure, at an eforum in London. He estimated that $130 billion would need to be spent worldwide.
"The surge in online content is at the centre of the most dramatic changes affecting the Internet today," he said, reported ZDNet.
"In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today. We are going to be butting up against the physical capacity of the Internet by 2010."
He also claimed that an ‘unprecedented new wave of broadband traffic’ would increase 50-fold by 2015.
Let's just hope no one types 'Google' into Google.
Comments
“Internet close to full capacity”
Posted by: Richard - Apr 27, 9:13pm
check this out!
“whats the solution/relacement ?”
Posted by: Richard - Apr 27, 9:14pm
what will replace the internet and where will the additional investment come from ?
“Re: whats the solution/relacement ?”
Posted: Apr 28, 10:06am
That's a tough one. Is there an answer? Is it just a case of more servers needed or are the actual pipes not fat enough anymore? with ISPs (in the UK anyways) already panicking at the cost of video streaming services like BBC iPlayer on their networks, surely there are big problems ahead?
“Re: whats the solution/relacement ?”
Posted by: worried - May 1, 10:05am
Wow - first the £5 gallon of petrol and now the internet is about to break - we're doomed!