Internet Could Choke by 2010?

Techtree News Staff, Nov 26, 2007 1802 hrs IST

The Nemertes report warns that by 2010, our friendly information super highway might become so clogged with data, forcing Broadband users to return to using dial-up modems.

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Too much dependence on the Internet is fine, except that by 2010, we might be headed for an information highway traffic jam that will make life on the Internet extremely difficult.

This -- as per a newly minted study by US analyst, Nemertes Research, partly-funded by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) that campaigns for universal Broadband in the US.

The Nemertes report warns that by 2010, our friendly information super highway might become so clogged with data, forcing Broadband users to return to using dial-up modems.

How? Simple things like downloading Web pages will begin to take longer. Especially -- those fun videos from popular Web sites like YouTube. And, we may never get to see another Google or YouTube, thanks only to the lack of sufficient infrastructure.

The remedy, as prescribed by Nemertes, is an almost $137 billion investment in global Internet infrastructure, which happens to be double of that originally envisaged.

But the Nemertes report says in no uncertain terms that until and unless this scale of investment happens, a gridlock would develop to such an extent that it would make functioning on the Internet near-impossible.

Top-level officials at the IIA voiced the view that necessary steps must be taken to build network capacity, and potentially face Internet gridlock which might wreak havoc on Internet services.

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USER COMMENTS

I work with a networking company, I assure you that the above article is Bull crap!!! My company makes networking equipment whose speeds increases everyday the speeds are always way ahead of the requirements. The internet will never get blocked or stop working, it will only multiply

by poan, b'lore, on Nov 29, 2007 11:15 PM, Report abuse Reply

I mean, not a fault by the Techtree folks, but whoever has done that research knows nothing. This article also appeared in some newspaper

by poan, b'lore, on Nov 29, 2007 11:23 PM, Report abuse

ya that may be. bcoz day to day the dependence to internet is increasing. this cud be tackled by increasing more broad band vendors and fine satellites to handle more download-upload memory by applying good protocol system.

by gunjeet bhansin, bhubaneswar/jalandhar, on Nov 29, 2007 03:34 PM, Report abuse Reply

Lies all lies, The fiber optic backbone of the United States is still underused. Why do you think companies like Quest had such a hard time a few years ago and why it only costs 1 cent or even free to call cross crountry and even international. My feeling this is a ploy by the telecom companies to exhort more money for less services. Simply tell the the telcom compnaies to light up more of the fiber optic network. They only use something like 20% of its current capacity now. Now with new multispectral capabilities it could mean that the current 20% could be reduced to 1 or 2%.

by JEB, Maryland, on Nov 26, 2007 08:19 PM, Report abuse Reply

Excellent! very well said JEB, this article is nothing but farce. Technological advancement will make it even more smooth to surf the internet, get unimaginable speeds, and do stuff that we never thought would be possible.

by mominwhiz, New Delhi, on Nov 26, 2007 11:13 PM, Report abuse

Very Well said Jeb... I am with you.. With blades server coming up with more processing power..You can only expect better performance...

by Ashish, Delhi-India, on Nov 27, 2007 04:30 PM, Report abuse

Well ..this is a first timer....though I am not an expert on this, it is certainly the first time I have come upon a report like this.....an Urban Legend?

by Nishant, Hyderabad, on Nov 27, 2007 10:15 AM, Report abuse Reply

when traffic increases u move from two lane to four lane and so on.so make servers faster.

by sachin, goa, on Nov 26, 2007 11:19 PM, Report abuse Reply