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Readers have reported that this story contains information that may not be accurate.Internet could run out of capacity in two years
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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- vroom101, on 11/21/2007, -1/+45An "out of capacity" Internet is like the "DIGG killer " ( http://www.google.com/search?q=DIGG+killer ): Momentary-Attention-Grab with no hope of actually happening.
- CandidateZero, on 11/21/2007, -2/+16Total comment abuse, but I think it's important: http://digg.com/tech_news/The_$200_Billion_Broadba ...
If the telcos ask for billions in subsidy money, Congress needs to remember the $200 billion in tax dollars they already gave and make the AT&Ts pay up instead.- CandidateZero, on 11/21/2007, -0/+9 Rrr... (digg needs a comment deletion function while editing)
- CandidateZero, on 11/21/2007, -0/+5Crap, URL didn't catch. Google "digg broadband scandal" -- first link.
- SuperMoses, on 11/21/2007, -0/+20Digg needs to fix the bug that cuts URLs when editing a comment
- weeeezzll, on 11/21/2007, -0/+16They also need to fix that bug that inserts too many line breaks when the comment is first posted. I always edit my comments to reduce the verticle size of my post
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- weeeezzll, on 11/21/2007, -0/+16They also need to fix that bug that inserts too many line breaks when the comment is first posted. I always edit my comments to reduce the verticle size of my post
- sporg, on 11/21/2007, -2/+11Oh noes fiber optics is clogged !
- acdcfanbill, on 11/21/2007, -1/+9It could run out of capacity tomorrow if I went around and cut enough buried fiber, however, neither of these is very likely.
- randysouth, on 11/21/2007, -1/+13I blame it all on the Lolcats
- jserio, on 11/21/2007, -1/+4There's only so many dump trucks that can move your data through the tubes...
- CandidateZero, on 11/21/2007, -2/+16Total comment abuse, but I think it's important: http://digg.com/tech_news/The_$200_Billion_Broadba ...
- Catgofire, on 11/21/2007, -3/+13The group ... has been warning people of the coming “exaflood” ... that could clog its pipes. So is Ted Stevens behind this, just so he can finally be vindicated?
- vade79, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1Just because Stevens is not informed doesn't make it untrue. People reference Stevens about the "clogged tubes" and rule out a saturated internet just because some old coot said it.
- tkotam, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1BTW, the stock prices of Caterpillar and Komatsu just went up more than 15%...
- vade79, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1Just because Stevens is not informed doesn't make it untrue. People reference Stevens about the "clogged tubes" and rule out a saturated internet just because some old coot said it.
- dracostimpy, on 11/21/2007, -3/+151Peak Internet is coming... everyone start stockpiling bandwidth now!!!
- sjbdallas, on 11/21/2007, -14/+4Geez, i thought going wireless would solve all our internet bandwidth problems. What's causing this? All the data sucking people with their Cat5e cables running all over their homes? I saw a picture earlier today of a polar bear who couldn't get internet because of our bandwidth policies. Something has to change!
- tkotam, on 11/21/2007, -0/+2"Geez, i thought going wireless would solve all our internet bandwidth problems."
No it wont... The reason behind this is because of those damn LOLcat pictures people keep downloading... sigh... :-)
- tkotam, on 11/21/2007, -0/+2"Geez, i thought going wireless would solve all our internet bandwidth problems."
- chingy1788, on 11/21/2007, -2/+15most diggers would probably stockpile pron
- ohgr, on 11/21/2007, -2/+9Waaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of you :-D
- bobbob1016, on 11/21/2007, -2/+4So THIS is why Comcast is throttling access, they want to stockpile their bandwidth, makes sense now...
- DontGiveADamn, on 11/21/2007, -1/+5In a sense I am doing that now by downloading all the movies and music I can. Then when the tubes get clogged I have plenty of entertainment.
- blackbeardtron, on 11/21/2007, -1/+5I'm a computer... Stop all the downloads...
- AliasHandler, on 11/21/2007, -0/+3+1 for the reference that nobody else got.
G.I. JOE FTW!!
- AliasHandler, on 11/21/2007, -0/+3+1 for the reference that nobody else got.
- sjbdallas, on 11/21/2007, -14/+4Geez, i thought going wireless would solve all our internet bandwidth problems. What's causing this? All the data sucking people with their Cat5e cables running all over their homes? I saw a picture earlier today of a polar bear who couldn't get internet because of our bandwidth policies. Something has to change!
- Happy_Phantom, on 11/21/2007, -3/+25Nice to know, but much of the Internet has already been slashdot-ed and dugg to death.
- stalefries, on 11/21/2007, -1/+4Most of the good parts, anyway.
- tpearl, on 11/21/2007, -8/+3OK......................and monkeys fly out my butt.
Wayne Campbell- joshrice, on 11/21/2007, -1/+10ex-squeeze me? baking powder? did you just misquote Wanye's World?
"and monkeys might fly out of my butt"- krets, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1I never knew that Wanye had a show? How did he find the time between all his Boys 2 Men stuff?
- joshrice, on 11/21/2007, -1/+10ex-squeeze me? baking powder? did you just misquote Wanye's World?
- ConAmoreEFuoco, on 11/21/2007, -4/+60Mom! I ran out of tubes! Mom?!
- ChromaVita, on 11/21/2007, -4/+80I'll just email my mom and ask her for moew... oh wait.
Nvm I'll just call her from my VOIP pho... *****.
I'll drive to her house. Let me just hit up Mapquest and.......
OH MY GOD WE'RE *****.- capiCrimm, on 11/21/2007, -7/+4google maps is superior.
- dkkicks, on 11/21/2007, -4/+3True that. Double true.
- Jeffler, on 11/21/2007, -0/+5But it still wont work...*****.
- steelmaverick, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1Cell phone? Payphone? Two cans and a string?
- capiCrimm, on 11/21/2007, -7/+4google maps is superior.
- carnage, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2you had a perfect place to use an interrobang(‽)... im saddened
- Tiggums, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1so this is what skynet taking over is like.... well at least we have arnold to save the day!
- ChromaVita, on 11/21/2007, -4/+80I'll just email my mom and ask her for moew... oh wait.
- badassninja, on 11/21/2007, -3/+9Yeah, if comcast has anything to do with it.
- EvanVolm, on 11/21/2007, -2/+59Brown-out? Is that the best they could come up with?
- AshamedAmerican, on 11/21/2007, -2/+43well it IS completely full of *****.
- jmpeagle, on 11/21/2007, -4/+9that's an old term juxtaposed with black outs and drop outs when dealing with electricity
Blackout
where power is lost completely. "Load shedding" or a rolling blackout is a common term for a controlled way of rotating available generation capacity between various districts or customers, thus avoiding wide area total blackouts.
Brownout
where the voltage level is below the normal minimum level specified for the system. Systems supplied with three-phase electric power also suffer brownouts if one or more phases are absent, at reduced voltage, or incorrectly phased. Such malfunctions are particularly damaging to electric motors. Some brownouts, called voltage reductions, are made intentionally to prevent a full power outage.
Dropout
where the loss of power is only momentary (milliseconds to seconds).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout_(electricity ...- edebolt, on 11/21/2007, -0/+6yeah duh most people know what a electrical brown out is... I think a term like congestion or sub optimal traffic patterns would be more accurate
- Jugalator, on 11/21/2007, -0/+2Huh? I don't think your parent didn't know what a brown-out was... The point is that it's nothing like one, and a horrible dumbing down of the term on the scale of "clogging the pipes".
- GoatMonkey2112, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1It means that all of those videos won't have enough bandwidth and the sound will have to be replaced with the brown noise.
- polydigm, on 11/21/2007, -5/+10sounds like Y2K all over again !
- Beakerz, on 11/21/2007, -1/+5uh huh.... like big corps are going to let the billions of dollars just fly out the window while saying "Buh bye internet!"
or anyone for that matter. - AshamedAmerican, on 11/21/2007, -1/+37This sounds like an Onion story.
- shlolz, on 11/21/2007, -2/+75We need to upgrade from tubes to dump trucks.
- Fihiro, on 11/21/2007, -4/+6Rofl!
I guess your right though, any logical man can see that Dump Trucks can carry MUCH more data than a series of tubes =/- trickyt, on 11/21/2007, -0/+3Pinging google.com [64.233.187.99] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 64.233.187.99: bytes=32 time=3d 21h 15m 12s 49ms TTL=245- AliasHandler, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1I see what you did there.
- trickyt, on 11/21/2007, -0/+3Pinging google.com [64.233.187.99] with 32 bytes of data:
- PURPLEDRINK, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2the internet is not a dump truck! it's not something you just dump stuff on... yet.
- Fihiro, on 11/21/2007, -4/+6Rofl!
- MrKrinkleDude, on 11/21/2007, -1/+36They said the same thing 2 years ago. $100 says that they'll be saying the same thing in 2 more years.
- idiotwithastick, on 11/21/2007, -1/+4Well, back in the day, everyone was fine with 56k dialup, and before that with things orders of magnitude slower, and now even more people are using the Internet at a higher bandwidth. I think some people just don't think ahead at what technologies the future could bring us.
- monkeestylee, on 11/21/2007, -0/+39nope. they'll always find room for more porn.
- Smight, on 11/21/2007, -2/+11Think of how much more porn they could fit if they dumped those useless projects like SETI and Folding@home.
- 89vision, on 11/21/2007, -1/+10SETI could eventually lead to a whole new genre of porn though.
- weeeezzll, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1Lead to!? Ha! Never underestimate porn...
NSFW: http://www.alienporn.net/
- weeeezzll, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1Lead to!? Ha! Never underestimate porn...
- 89vision, on 11/21/2007, -1/+10SETI could eventually lead to a whole new genre of porn though.
- Smight, on 11/21/2007, -2/+11Think of how much more porn they could fit if they dumped those useless projects like SETI and Folding@home.
- joemofo214, on 11/21/2007, -3/+108Solution?
Do away with myspace- Jugalator, on 11/21/2007, -6/+4And take Facebook with you.
- 01l0, on 11/21/2007, -3/+22dear god, THE TUBES ARE GETTING CLOGGED
- PURPLEDRINK, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1hurry up, someone play the state lottery... we need one of those round lottery balls to blast thru and unclog the tubes
- kmartshopper, on 11/22/2007, -1/+1THATS WHAT SHE SAID
- NickUrsis, on 11/21/2007, -0/+15I've been hearing this for the last 12 years, ever since I got in the biz in '95....
- KewlerKid3, on 11/21/2007, -1/+10This is doubtful. The telco's have been saying this crap for so long. Streaming content and p2p scares them!
- carpespasm, on 11/21/2007, -0/+2dang right it does. where I work we had to upgrade our cisco routers the size of a full rack each recently because we needed more bandwidth for our customers. those things are like 30-50 grand without any actual cards. telcos usually have a lot more of those bad boys to get when they want to widen their backbone lines.
The internet isn't going to run out of bandwidth though. To date no one has yet to find any speed limit to how fast data over an optical fiber can boogie, so as long as they can process the streams in and out faster there's still room for growth. Telcos and cable providers will just have to *LE GASP* spend some money to make their lines better. - davmacbea, on 11/21/2007, -0/+3I don't know if this is the case everywhere, but most ISPs in the UK don't seem to support multicast streaming. If an ISP wants to serve a stream per viewer for a live video broadcast, rather than a stream per broadcast, then they're obviously not too concerned about bandwidth (not to mention server load).
- carpespasm, on 11/21/2007, -0/+2dang right it does. where I work we had to upgrade our cisco routers the size of a full rack each recently because we needed more bandwidth for our customers. those things are like 30-50 grand without any actual cards. telcos usually have a lot more of those bad boys to get when they want to widen their backbone lines.
- antoniuk, on 11/21/2007, -2/+12it will not run out numbnuts, it will just cost more. And who takes macworld serious?!?
- DirkBelig, on 11/21/2007, -2/+12No kidding. "The Mac Experts" talking about anything seriously computer-related would be like NAMBLA Monthly rating Pamela Anderson sex tapes.
- GreatJohnDenver, on 11/21/2007, -2/+2head explodes
- LordSkywalker, on 11/21/2007, -2/+6These are those types of stories people look back on with amusement that we could be so wrong. Like the 640K joke or old $10K 1MB hard drives and such.
- BodomX, on 11/21/2007, -1/+16"Macworld.com"
Sigh.- PURPLEDRINK, on 11/21/2007, -2/+1mac world is saying something that doesn't run on a mac will crash? shocker
- drastik21, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1The internet doesn't work with Macs???
- Tiggums, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1yeah iGaveUp there...
- PURPLEDRINK, on 11/21/2007, -2/+1mac world is saying something that doesn't run on a mac will crash? shocker
- SilverBlade2k, on 11/21/2007, -1/+14Just a ploy to charge consumers more money for measly speeds. We need to follow Korea...fibre straight to the home...no problem then.
- jzp-digg, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Way 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.
- NoobieDoobieDo, on 11/21/2007, -2/+4Using lots of big numbers does not make something more true.
Fail. - graviplana, on 11/21/2007, -2/+57This is inaccurate. Buried. In my opinion, this is an attempt to set the stage for a Tiered Internet.
- monsterkody, on 11/21/2007, -1/+4Yep
- vidaliasweet, on 11/21/2007, -1/+4ditto
- F1R3DUP, on 11/21/2007, -1/+4*COUGH* NET NEUTRALITY *COUGH*
- jzp-digg, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Just 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.
- ZenMojo, on 11/21/2007, -2/+5Wow...so you really can reach the end of the internet....
I'm going to piss off the Libertarians by saying this but...we should really have the government intervene and build on our infrastructure...just a thought....- Grummond, on 11/21/2007, -1/+6Well, they did that in Sweden, the government built a massive fibreoptic backbone through the country, connecting all the major cities.
It was relatively inexpensive because of economies of scale, and Sweden is now known as "bandwidth heaven" where a 100/100 mbit connection is cheaper than most people pay for regular cable everywhere else. That project jumpstarted Sweden's internet adoptance, and is a major contributor to the success their economy is having.
Of course, such a thing could never happen in the US, Libertarians will not allow such a thing to happen :/- carpespasm, on 11/21/2007, -0/+2I'm generally libertarian, but the federal gov. is supposed to be there for international and interstate matters. they built the interstate freeways, they ought to build us some interstate broadband backbones wide enough to shove whatever we might need in the forseeable future down them.
- jefferygomer, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1That 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: http://sedac.ciesin.org/gpw/country.jsp?iso=SWE#
http://barzilaiendan.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/u ...
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.
- weeeezzll, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1http://www.romlist.com/end/
- ascii63, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2Libertarians? Yeah, with all of their overarching power over US policy.... right. More like the telecom juggernauts will not allow such a thing to happen, as it would devastate their current racket.
- madaznboi, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1Wow...so you really can reach the end of the internet....
Reminds me of a game I used to play, Heroine Hero, did you ever hear of that one? You're supposed to catch the dragon.
- Grummond, on 11/21/2007, -1/+6Well, they did that in Sweden, the government built a massive fibreoptic backbone through the country, connecting all the major cities.
- syxle, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2Major backbones will get hit with a flase flag attack and new controlling replacement will be brought in instead.
Ordo ab Chao. - MutatedNantuko, on 11/21/2007, -1/+5I wonder if any of these figures are real, even. 161 exabytes this year? $42 - $55 billion in the next 3 to five years? Yeah, macworld. Keep whipping out numbers from your ass without any sources.
- Guspaz, on 11/21/2007, -3/+6Smaller ISPs are starting to feel the crunch. Not in available capacity, but cost. Transit isn't cheap ($10 per megabit is considered cheap), and smaller ISPs often have to pay large fees to the telcos to get access to the line. Bell Canada charges wholesalers $20.50 for access to the line/DSLAM/atm backhaul, and the wholesalers tend to sell their service for $30 or so.
That leaves $10 to pay for your bandwidth usage, employee salaries, office rent, other overhead, etc.
This means that, on such an ISP, if your average usage is more than about half a megabit per second, your ISP is losing money on you.
Now, the cost of transit is NOT going down. And as DSL connection speeds in Canada have increased from 1mbit, to 1.5mbit, to 3mbit, to 5mbit, and now 7 and 16 mbit, the smaller ISPs still have to pay for your bandwidth out of that $10 margin. So your connection is 16 times faster, but the bandwidth is NOT 16 time cheaper!
This was the reason that my ISP recently increased the price on their unlimited plan from $30 to $40. Although their "premium" plan (better quality transit) has a 200GB cap and is still $30.
Notice that, though. They don't have to raise the price on the premium plan because the bandwidth usage is capped. So this is what we'll see more of. Capping usage at a given amount (hopefully a reasonable one like my ISP's 200GB cap). When you cap the usage, it doesn't matter how fast your customers' lines are, because your bandwidth costs are fixed.
I, for one, see a bright future ahead, at least for my ISP, who aren't trying to scam their customers with tiny 20 or 30 gig caps (which costs the ISP perhaps $1 in transit). My ISP is giving us bandwidth pretty close to at cost, and relying on the fact that not all customers use 100% of their monthly cap each month to make their profit. This is how more ISPs should behave.
For the curious, my ISP is TekSavvy (http://teksavvy.com)- Grummond, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1a bright future for an ISP that uses bandwidth caps? That's crazy talk!
- truegodofwar, on 11/21/2007, -2/+4umm, no. More demand = More Money = New Tubes
simple economics really. - meridian300, on 11/21/2007, -2/+7nothing a little draino wouldn't fix
- UnstableMind, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to hand over the bomb making materials. You are not allowed to have Weapons of Mass Destruction. Where did you get this Drano can anyway? Wal-Mart? Well, they're allowed to sell it, but you are not allowed to have it in your possession.
/My thoughts on how our country is going to sound in 10 years.
- UnstableMind, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to hand over the bomb making materials. You are not allowed to have Weapons of Mass Destruction. Where did you get this Drano can anyway? Wal-Mart? Well, they're allowed to sell it, but you are not allowed to have it in your possession.
- riverstyx, on 11/21/2007, -2/+3Oh the whole "The sky is falling" thing..Yea they said the same thing a few hundred years ago and last time I checked today, the sky was still there and looking rather nice.
To whomever: I wonder if the "Tubes" you speak of are the same tubes related to "World is going right down the tubes" expression..
Just get rid of Myspace and we'll be ok for a while. Wouldn't hurt to stop handing out those AOL cds at the local supermarkets either. - Puffball, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2http://techdirt.com/articles/20071119/115734.shtml
"For well over a decade now, someone will come along every few months or so and claim that the internet is about to be overwhelmed by traffic and will collapse. However, these predictions never seem to come true, and when you dig deeper, you almost always find that the reports misinterpret some data. In fact, when you get down into the details, you'll almost always find that the technology guys say there's little threat of an internet collapse -- but the policy and business guys will often state otherwise." - riverstyx, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1Y2K??
Simpsons Did It, Simpsons Did It!
"“We think the exaflood is generally not well understood, and its investment implications not well defined.”
(Exaflood???)- Tiggums, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1do we need to hire an exaMasterChief to stop the exaflood?
you can digg it down, but it was worth it!
- Tiggums, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1do we need to hire an exaMasterChief to stop the exaflood?
- mal1964, on 11/21/2007, -6/+2Someone will crack it soon, torrent wont be long after.
- wolferz, on 11/21/2007, -2/+1Oh and beware of Y2K. If your computer isn't patched it might cause the end of the modern world. Just $9.95 for an easy install y2k compliance analyzer...
- kriminalintent, on 11/21/2007, -2/+1digg effect?
- worldorder, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2There is no problem with capacity. The ISPs are just trying to find more ways to charge you more money. Differentiated services is the key for them which is kind of like Bronze, Silver, Gold services. In order to provide corporate customers enhanced services at a reasonable price they have to charge the general public more money in order to upgrade their gear. Otherwise its difficult for large ISPs to take the chance and create new services that corporate customers might not want. There is just too much at stake by not taxing the general public more money for services.
- boshuda, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2"A disruption in communication can only mean one thing. Invasion"
Foreshadowing of the Shadow Government.
Before they get rid of our guns, they get rid of our internet. - riot, on 11/21/2007, -2/+1fix... IPV6... and before you say that will only increase ips just wait a minute.
It will do that but it will also upgrade those old routers out their to someone that can muitplex ect. - Lkr721993, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2any chance of getting a plumber to unclog those tubes?
- Slugo, on 11/21/2007, -1/+8I call BS ...they are just priming the pump for tiered service ......get ready folks because we are about to get bent over
- Compserd, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2I guess this would be a good time for Google to release their enhanced next generation version of the Internet, GNET.
- Yage2006, on 11/21/2007, -1/+3If by "the world" you mean america maybe
This article though is clueless .
/Buried - DesertDude, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2"Internet could run out of capacity in two years"
*hands on hips* THANKS Jenna Jameson! - QuickeningYak, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2Did anyone else misread that as "Internet could run out of capacitors in two years" ? ...because hey, THAT would be a story.
- aramova, on 11/21/2007, -1/+6Two words...
Dark Fiber
Where is all this dark fiber that was put down? It's sitting there. A lot of the Telcos still use legacy fiber modules which could be upgraded to take advantage of the current fiber thats there.
There are a lot of hardware solutions, and we're not even touching on the network layer... that's a whole other can of worms.- Mariachi94, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1true that. And there's a TON of it lying around too.
- UnstableMind, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1At one time you could only get 10Mbps out of copper, it sure as hell works at 1000Mbps now. I know it uses a couple more pairs, but *****. I'm pretty sure they can develop or improve upon hardware for how fast light blinks.
- UnstableMind, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1Also, I wanted to add, most of the media content (which is what most people are concerned about) will be delivered by local telco or cable suppliers, not across the backbone. This is *****.
- jzp-digg, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Wrong.
- 89vision, on 11/21/2007, -1/+2Google is buying up every inch of dark fiber they can find.
- jzp-digg, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Lighting fiber is not an issue. "All the telcos" do not use "legacy modules" - what are you talking about? Serious DWDM systems exist and are in use by the named companies. That doesn't get you better than oc768 for moving the actual payload. Dear IEEE, accelerate 100G please.
- kurtwinter, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1The smurf is smurfing!!
- Shanerguy, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1Like anyone uses the internet...
- skipgamer, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1Its never going to happen... Software and hardware developers will continuously invent new ways to compress and store data, so that this will never happen. In the absolute worst case scenario you wont be able to enjoy ur super duper high speed internet and it will be throttled back. Which to be honest, wont affect your life too much.
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