ahmeer
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 | Subject: 2010 Dooms day for the Net as it hits full capacity  Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:47 am | |
| Doom-filled warnings arrive from AT&T this week. The company says that without substantial investment in network infrastructure, the Internet will essentially run out of bandwidth in just two short years. Blame broadband, says AT&T. Decades of dealing with the trickle of bandwidth consumed by voice and dialup modems left AT&T twiddling its thumbs. The massive rise of DSL and cable modem service in the 2000s has had AT&T facing a monstrous increase in the volume of data transmissions. And that's set to increase another 50 times between now and 2015. That's enough, says AT&T, to all but crash the system.
In response, AT&T says it's investing $19 billion to upgrade the backbone of the Internet, the routers, servers, and connections where the bulk of traffic is processed.
Of course, AT&T is using this breathlessness in part to point fingers beyond simple broadband use. Web video (especially high-definition video) is the most commonly mentioned bandwidth hog. AT&T says video alone will eat up 80 percent of traffic in two years vs. just 30 percent now. One wonders how YouTube doesn't collapse under the pressure. Hmmm.
Meanwhile, many are wondering whether this is prelude to AT&T announcing (or not announcing, but doing anyway) a traffic prioritization/shaping system like Comcast has been tinkering with... and which has earned it nothing but scorn. Net neutrality (which would forbid premium pricing for certain Internet applications and destinations) is a topic that continues to be hotly debated on Capitol Hill, and telcos are anxious to kill the idea since they'd love to be able to charge additional money for different kinds of web traffic. If the whole Internet is about to crash, well, that makes AT&T's argument all the more compelling, doesn't it? | |
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| | Subject: Re: 2010 Dooms day for the Net as it hits full capacity Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:38 pm | |
| Oh well someone needs to do something about that. | |
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| | Subject: Re: 2010 Dooms day for the Net as it hits full capacity Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:15 am | |
| Nice one ahmeer. This is some pretty interesting stuff.
But of course new infrastructure has to be implemented. They even plan on streaming almost all cable over the net.
Buts there problem. Everyone pays there cable/phone/net bills. Now you pompous rich bastards better get off ur fat asses and fix this! | |
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| | Subject: Re: 2010 Dooms day for the Net as it hits full capacity Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:31 am | |
| I I I I I'm not fat  that hurt me.. | |
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