Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Paul Vixie wrote:
> (i'm guessing kc will be on the phone soon, to get from them their data?)

Any of us with any sense know the Internet could potentially die tomorrow
morning. Any of us with any sense know it could be done in any number of
ways, ranging from relatively few well aimed packets to a few thousand
bots if used correctly, if not a few hundred if used amazingly well.

Any of us with half a sense know that the Internet is not going to die
tomorrow and that if it does, something will replace or more likely
supplement it.

But run out of tubes and trucks? Come on! Traffic jams are solved by
bypasses and more lanes. :P

> ...
>
> A recent report from Deloitte said 2007 could be the year the internet
> approaches capacity, with demand outstripping supply. It predicted bottlenecks
> in some of the net's backbones as the amount of data overwhelms the size of
> the pipes.
>
> ...
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6342063.stm