arstechnica.com — New research from Telegeography only confirms what we've been saying for some time: the Internet backbone isn't drowning beneath any kind of exaflood. In fact, backbone capacity has grown faster than Internet traffic in the last year?for the second year in a row.
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esilverskiSep 3, 2008
This is your first comment. Maybe after a few you will realize ninja commenting isn't funny.
mrmopwaterSep 3, 2008
This is total propaganda from this group: <a class="user" href="http://www.internetinnovation.org/">http://www.internetinnovation.org/</a> Founded by these guys: From a Washington Post byline "Bruce Mehlman was assistant secretary of commerce under President Bush. Larry Irving was assistant secretary of commerce under President Bill Clinton. They are co-chairmen of the Internet Innovation Alliance, a coalition of individuals, businesses and nonprofit groups that includes telecommunications companies."...THAT INCLUDES TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES. I can't find any criticism of this organization anywhere. Anyone know where there's some research on these guys?
lornaliSep 4, 2008
I thought internet browsing is optional
tenoqSep 4, 2008
Backbone isn't the problem, IMO - it's the next level, with ISPs and backhaul/interconnects within states/regions/whatever. The actual Internet backbone is fine, but people still end up with slower connections during peak times because their local node/exchange/whatever is overloaded. Without knowing the real term for this, I dub it '2nd last mile'. And it needs fixing. Now. :P