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Telecommunications US body warns of Internet gridlock
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 19 April 2007 | |
  
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The term 'exaflood' refers to the largest quantum of data for which a name exits: an exabyte being one thousand million gigabytes. The IIA cites a new IDC report, saying that, in 2007 the amount of information created will surpass, for the first time, the storage capacity available. "YouTube uses as much bandwidth today as the entire Internet consumed in the year 2000. Users daily upload 65,000 new videos and download 100 million files, a 1,000 percent increase from just one year ago. Experts say more than a billion songs a day are shared over the Internet in MP3 format. " It also quotes research from the University of California at Berkeley showing that information added annually to the digital universe between 2006 and 2010 is expected to increase more than six fold – to 988 exabytes per year. Peter Coroneos, executive director of Australia's IIA, the Internet Industry Assocation, said his organisation was in broad agreement but nowhere near as alarmist. "'Nearing its limit' is somewhat evocative," Coroneos told ITWire. "The Net is almost infinitely scalable by design. With IPv6, the addressing issue will be largely resolved, at least for the foreseeable future. Investment is ongoing and upgrades occur as a matter of course to meet demand. But there is absolutely no denying that the pressure for capacity is very real and policies which encourage investment in capacity are necessary...There is no doubt that users will consume all the bandwidth available (subject to cost). [And] more capacity will indeed spur more innovation, which in turn will create applications which themselves demand more capacity. He re-iterated the views expressed in the Association's broadband targets statement of 2006 and said "Capacity constraints will impact the economy and our ability to keep up internationally as we move to more of a knowledge based economy in this century... So [we] would support the general tenor of these findings and call, once again, for a bipartisan nation building approach to broadband in Australia." In its targets statement the IIA noted ABS data showing capacity requirements doubling every 12 months, and extrapolating this it said: "We project that the average user will consume some 76Gbytes of data per quarter by 2010. This is based on an assumption that emerging voice, video and data services combined with software as a service, interactive gaming and other rich media applications will continue to be developed in tandem with increasing availability of bandwidth."{moscomment} |
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