2010: D-day for the Internet as it hits "full capacity"?
By icyorchid
@icyorchid (2564)
United States
April 25, 2008 11:11pm CST
Now what will we all do?? NO MYLOT or online businesses!! OH NO!! They can't do that to us!
I hope this info is very wrong.
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 http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AjDKU_f.9np1tOO_h3cbqxEtMZA5/SIG=11k54i4iq/**http%3A//news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6237715.html 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.
http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AusFtz3ZyvSvQTiJuVi5xwotMZA5/SIG=13trrtteg/**http%3A//arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071023-comcast-shooting-itself-in-the-foot-with-traffic-shaping-explanations.html
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?
I hope this info is very wrong.
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 http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AjDKU_f.9np1tOO_h3cbqxEtMZA5/SIG=11k54i4iq/**http%3A//news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6237715.html 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.
http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AusFtz3ZyvSvQTiJuVi5xwotMZA5/SIG=13trrtteg/**http%3A//arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071023-comcast-shooting-itself-in-the-foot-with-traffic-shaping-explanations.html
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?2 people like this
4 responses
@wingman24 (33)
• South Africa
22 May 08
This will never happen as the Internet has no specific storage space...it runs on the endless amount of network in the world...thats why the Internet was built as a communications network that is bulletproof and is BULLETPROOF
@Jody20 (887)
• Netherlands
27 Apr 08
I don't know what to do, if it happens. I can think of a live without internet, i hope i hope they work it out, we can't do more. The best thing to do is don't think about it and enjoy the internet when you still can.
Have a good day!
@littleowl (7157)
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26 Apr 08
Hi Icy-I hope that is all wrong as I love mylot and all my friends on here surely that cant happen!? Surely mylot would let us all know if something like that is going to happen? blessings littleowl
@wickedangel (1636)
• Dominican Republic
26 Apr 08
Well I am not surprised really on this news. The internet has absolutely flourished over the last 10 yrs or so. Just think nearly every person has a laptop or computer at home, sometimes both so it is no wonder that we will run out of space.
I suppose they could delete some of the videos (i.e. the ones that haven't been viewed for say a year). There is a lot of information out there that could be archived.
I won't be surprised however, if it becomes more costly to go on the internet and that the manufacturers of said technology will start creating something more powerful and smaller etc.
Oh hum, I can't see the internet dying or places like this. Not yet, any way.
Thanks for sharing this with us, icy.
