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Study: Video Traffic to Kill Internet by 2010
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoWrong. As ISPs get overwhelmed with video traffic, they will upgrade their infrastructure and come up with new strategies to deliver video content to users.
- chaosmachine 17y agoMore likely, at least here in North America, ISPs will just start throttling video streams.
- troystribling 17y agoI just switched to viewing all video either as downloads or live streams. Many downloads are 780p HD. For me this requires about 1GB to 2GB daily. I also upgraded to a 20MBs downstream link from Comcast and typically see download speeds averaging 5Mb/s. Even with the the Comcast cap of 250GB per month current products sold by US ISPs can easily meet a reasonable demand for video. For an interesting read on how ISPs are addressing the increasing need for high bandwidth demand read http://loosebolts.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/our-vision-for-generation-4-modular-data-centers-one-way-of-getting-it-just-right/ http://loosebolts.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/our-vision-for-ge... I think I have heard this claim every few years since the mid 90's. It is likely as valid now as in the past.
- Bjoern 17y agoUpgrading Hardware is of course one way to scale. I think the most benefit could occur from implementing a smart TCP congestion avoidance solution. Quite a while ago I stumbled over an interesting article or paper (can't quite remember, RFC??). Bascially it provides a easy solution for trottling and active feedback if a router is overwhelmed, which allows more intelligent routing. The theoretical speed improvement was significant.
- jerf 17y agoImminent Death of the Net Predicted! Film at 11! http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/I/Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Predicted-.html http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/I/Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net...