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Internet close to full capacity
Andrew Wooden Apr 23 2008, 11:43am
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AT&T claims the architecture of the internet will reach its limit by 2010
Telecommunications firm 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
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“Internet Capacity Solution”
Posted by: Rob - Apr 24, 9:59am
Surely all we need to do is stop these 20 households and the rest of us can carry on working....LOL
“Re: Internet Capacity Solution”
Posted by: Angry Monkey - Apr 24, 3:20pm
Pity the ISPs won't take some of that money we pay them and invest in solutions that will solve the bloody problem instead of whinging about it and then having the cheek to ask us for more money to do what we're already paying them to do...
“Re: Internet Capacity Solution”
Posted by: joniboy - May 8, 4:00pm
If it were true, I would agree with Rob! As it is, I don't remember anyone backing up AT&T, besides which, they would be one of the biggest culprits, would they not?
Years ago there was a problem with radio stations filling the bands, so many migrated to a higher band. Problem solved. Then we had the UHF TV bands filling up, so many(outside the USA!) moved to VHF..problem solved.Later, that started filling up, and people wanted a better picture, so we are going digital..problem solved again!.As always, new technology will take care of capacity problems, but AT&T technology must be behind, otherwise they would not have brought this up.