http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/11/19/internetcapacity/index.php
Be good to know who commissioned the study, as their may be an agenda.
If the potential for brown-outs is real, no doubt that measures must be taken to make sure this doesn’t happen.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/11/19/internetcapacity/index.php
Be good to know who commissioned the study, as their may be an agenda.
If the potential for brown-outs is real, no doubt that measures must be taken to make sure this doesn’t happen.
This is essentially a US problem, elsewhere bandwidth is racing ahead of anything in the US, and we are now talking, 2 to 3 times as much but 20 to 30 times as much, and the Far East is working hard to match that with Mobile Bandwidths. Even the Third World is faster, as nobody will sell them this obsolete technology!
That study was conducted by a think-tank supported by the likes of AT&T. Definitely astroturf. Here’s a link to a rebuttal;
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Internet-Ends-in-2010-89585
I’m no network scientist but just read this article today from Mass High Tech (I recommend it even if you are not from Massachusetts)
http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2006/07/31/focus4.html
Talks about how IPv6 is already being built. Maybe this has more to do with IP addresses then bandwidth but probably a good read if you eat up network stuff.
Chinese will be ready for IPv6, no problem. US as usual has its head in the sand, but has the greatest number of IPv4 addresses, which will still be valid, so I cannot see a major problem. All that might happen is that there is temporary market in IPv4 addresses in the US until IPv6 is made available again for new entrants.