There is no doubt that video is big on the net. But is it getting too big?
Ask AT&T and it will answer - yes.
Speaking in London in late April, Jim Cicconi, AT&T’s vice president of legal affairs, said the burgeoning amount of video would consume all the net’s bandwidth in two years.
At the moment, said Mr Cicconi, video makes up 30% of net traffic now and in two years will hit 80%. Add in the move to high definition video which is seven to 10 times more bandwidth hungry, he said, and you get a recipe for failure.
Mr Cicconi is not alone in making startling predictions about an imminent rise in the amount of data whizzing across the internet.
Well get with the program and use the money we pay you to get better servers!
If the ‘net goes down - the world will come to an END!
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9 responses so far ↓
thebeadden // April 29, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I think about the internet crashing from time to time.
People seem so passive when it comes to losing their privacy and rights. I thought the price of gasoline would have people protesting. But no.
But if the internet crashed. Look out! I bet people would lose it!
bluewaveted // April 30, 2008 at 12:12 am
Video is becoming more and more of a standard. What happened to good ol’ fashioned text?
garymurning // April 30, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Man, I’ve been reading stuff like this for the past ten years. I’m sure you have, too, Will. However crappy the service we receive (mine is pretty good, 4Mbps, about to be upgraded for “free” to 10Mbps), the infrastructure’s growth isn’t in stasis. It’s been added to and, on the whole, being improved.
The day th’internet crashes, I’ll eat my modem.
Will Rhodes // April 30, 2008 at 2:26 pm
You do know that is taking the proverbial, Gary - especially as I am still on frigging dial-up!
B0bbyG // April 30, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Well, I read somewhere a while back - may have been the BBC, actually - that if the Internet runs out of capacity (which is predicted to happen by 2010 at the rate we’re going), broadband will be no quicker than dial-up.
Will Rhodes // April 30, 2008 at 5:42 pm
When I first started with computers, Bobby - they said that a 10 GB HDD was as large as they could go.
With the solid-state HDD - Christ Himself knows how big a PC/Mac will become.
garymurning // May 1, 2008 at 6:24 am
Oops, sorry about that, Will.
The thing few people realise is, as Ray Kurzweil points out, technological development grows in an exponential way. It doesn’t grow at the current growth-rate because new technology feeds back and the growth-rate grows. A lot of these doomsayers base their predictions on linear models, hence their repeatedly proven inaccuracy.
Solid-state HDDs are a good example. Similar and better new technologies are just around the corner. Apply this to the whole Internet and… well, like I say, if it crashes I’ll eat… Will’s dial-up modem
Will Rhodes // May 1, 2008 at 1:20 pm
LOL - you can have it!
garymurning // May 1, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Can’t wait — a little ketchup and it’ll just slide down.
Slowly
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