Study: Internet could run out of capacity in two years

[Ecstatic]

This is all over the tech news lately:

Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.

A flood of new video and other Web content could overwhelm the Internet by 2010 unless backbone providers invest up to US$137 billion in new capacity, more than double what service providers plan to invest, according to the study, by Nemertes Research Group, an independent analysis firm. In North America alone, backbone investments of $42 billion to $55 billion will be needed in the next three to five years to keep up with demand, Nemertes said.

- Grant Gross, IDG News Service (http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/11/19/internetcapacity/index.php)

And everybody wants his porn for free.....

[hondarobot]

That would be pretty odd. "Whoops, we ran out of internet. . ."

All NYCe would have to do is dump the Shemale Cartoon thread, and available capacity would probably triple.

:lol:

[dgtlmstry]

That would be pretty odd. "Whoops, we ran out of internet. . ."

All NYCe would have to do is dump the Shemale Cartoon thread, and available capacity would probably triple.

:lol:


LMAO....agreed!

But seriously, I have always wondered if something like that would ever happen. I figured it must eventually, but the time frame they are talking about (2010) is a bit of a shocker...they could have told us this about 10 years ago. (Or did they???)

[SarahG]

There have been reports for a while that the infrastructure we have now is kinda limited. That's been the argument for "bandwidth mitigation" tactics like Comcast's work to keep torrents from working.

[hippifried]

they could have told us this about 10 years ago. (Or did they???)
Nah! 10 years ago, "they" were too busy whipping up the Y2K panic.

[thx1138]

I survived a long time without the internet. I could do so again.

[hondarobot]

Advances in technology will come along, the internet isn't going to just stop working.

The first PC I bought (the only one I've bought instead of built) had a 1 Gig HDD. I can now fit the equivalent of that on a chip smaller then my thumb nail, into my cell phone.

Still, interesting. I bet by 2010 the infrastructure of the net will be very different than it is now.

[justatransgirl]

I survived a long time without the internet. I could do so again.

Not me honey... I'm too lazy to work the street...

Giggle,
TS Jamie :-)

[Ecstatic]

Advances in technology will come along, the internet isn't going to just stop working.

The first PC I bought (the only one I've bought instead of built) had a 1 Gig HDD. I can now fit the equivalent of that on a chip smaller then my thumb nail, into my cell phone.

Still, interesting. I bet by 2010 the infrastructure of the net will be very different than it is now.
The first PC I bought had a whoppin' 20 MB hard drive! And 640K of RAM! Awesome system. Before that I used a dual floppy with no hd.

There are some major factors that we tend not to think of: spam email, VoIP, streaming media, torrents, offsite data storage transfers, all of which add tremendously to the load.

[hondarobot]

Advances in technology will come along, the internet isn't going to just stop working.

The first PC I bought (the only one I've bought instead of built) had a 1 Gig HDD. I can now fit the equivalent of that on a chip smaller then my thumb nail, into my cell phone.

Still, interesting. I bet by 2010 the infrastructure of the net will be very different than it is now.
The first PC I bought had a whoppin' 20 MB hard drive! And 640K of RAM! Awesome system. Before that I used a dual floppy with no hd.

There are some major factors that we tend not to think of: spam email, VoIP, streaming media, torrents, offsite data storage transfers, all of which add tremendously to the load.

Agreed, it is an interesting question. How do we engineer a system that can contain the full capacity of human thought?

That's just the first step.