macworld.com — Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.
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dracostimpyNov 21, 2007
Peak Internet is coming... everyone start stockpiling bandwidth now!!!
liwiiNov 21, 2007
"TUBE ON" - Apply DIRECTLY to the tubes."TUBE ON" - Apply DIRECTLY to the tubes."TUBE ON" - Apply DIRECTLY to the tubes.
jefferygomerNov 21, 2007
That doesn't really intervene with libertarian views. If they want to build the infrastructure, I'd be happy with that.The problems are:Sweden's land area is 410,934 km². USA is 9,161,923 km² minus 1,506,588 km² (Alaska and Hawaii). That's over 365% more land coverage. I'm not as educated as many of you about what the cost difference would be for maintaining an area that big, but implementing it would cost more than 365%. Especially since the density of both are so completely different: <a class="user" href="http://sedac.ciesin.org/gpw/country.jsp?iso=SWE#">http://sedac.ciesin.org/gpw/country.jsp?iso=SWE#</a><a class="user" href="http://barzilaiendan.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/usa-2000-population-density.gif">http://barzilaiendan.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/u ...</a>Just because it is sucessful in Sweden does not mean it would be sucessful here, as much as I'd like it to be.But let's say the cost of implementing it isn't an issue:A. Who is going to be the ISP(s)? The government or businesses?B. Is it going to be ran by the (federal) government?C. Is it going to be regulated by the (federal) government?D. Who is going to maintain it?E. Who is going to enforce the laws?I'd love to have a system similar to the interstate for the internet (Information superhighway, right?) but those two things are still quite different and it would bring unforeseen consequences to the economy (not all bad though).To think that if the internet infrastructure was implemented by the government and there not to be more laws and regulation is pretty naive. Bye bye bittorrents. Bye bye adult websites. Hello new taxes.
tiggumsNov 21, 2007
so this is what skynet taking over is like.... well at least we have arnold to save the day!
steelmaverickNov 21, 2007
Cell phone? Payphone? Two cans and a string?
jzp_diggNov 23, 2007
Just because this is inaccurate, don't go swallowing the redefined terms of the boneheaded "neutrality" propaganda war. You have now and always have had tiers.
jzp_diggNov 23, 2007
Way off base and not relevant. National and global networks need more capacity in the core; 100G standards will not exists until 2009 at best - expect a lot of money to have to be thrown at intermediate 'pre-standard' solutions in the very near term.