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When Will the Internet Reach Its Limit (and How Do We Stop That from Happening)?
- stevenjgarner 3y agoMany of the assumptions in this article appears incorrect. >> How do you keep the Internet from reaching “the limit”? The most obvious way is to increase bandwidth by laying more fiber. There is no shortage of installed fiber. The majority of installed optical cables have multiple fibers (e.g. 12, 48, 96 etc), the majority of which are usually dark. Only 2 (or even 1) fibers in a cable are needed to carry an Ethernet network. It is (generally) not that we need to lay more fiber, it is (generally) that we need to light more fibers in a cable by provisioning additional electronics at each end of the cable - assuming the existing optical fiber(s) are running anywhere near the nonlinear Shannon limit.