The Internet Is Going To Crash
WE’RE using up our inheritance:
Perhaps unsurprisingly, every year someone says the internet is going to collapse under the weight of the traffic.
Looking at the figures, that seems a reasonable prediction.
“Back in the days of the dotcom boom in the late 90s, billions of dollars were invested around the world in laying cables,” said net expert Bill Thompson.
“Then there was the crash of 2000 and since then we’ve been spending that inheritance, using that capacity, growing services to fill the space that was left over by all those companies that went out of business.”
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June 17th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
So what’s the problem?
There was an excess capacity which is being used.
If that capacity is used then more cables can be laid and better ways of distributing the traffic can be found.
Does anyone seriously believe that the billions of dollars in ‘Net traffic will simply be abandoned?
Not a chance!