There have been a flurry of articles in the mainstream press about how the Net is going to burst at the seams because of people uploading and viewing video from sites such as YouTube. Some of these reports say the Net has reached its capacity. Yeah, like a water pipe.
There have been a flurry of articles in the mainstream press about how the Net is going to burst at the seams because of people uploading and viewing video from sites such as YouTube. Add BitTorrent and Second Life and it’s Armageddon. The Net has reached its capacity! Yes, like a water pipe.
The reality is something else. Read David Isenberg’s blogpost. This whole business of downstream and upstream “limited” capacity is nothing more than a ploy to get people to pay more for something that is artificially scarce.
See my earlier post: Why no focus on upstream bandwidth?
Link to my article on why no focus on upstream bandwidth:
http://www.muniwireless.com/article/articleview/5717/1/30/
It is not the Internet or the big Fiber Carriers that will be impacted it is the last mile broadband links that are being impacted by big Media Downloads and local P2P video/music and gaming activity that never touch the Tier#1 and Fiber carriers.
This becomes even more important when one starts to see VoiceIP and Video traffic getting precedence/allocations in local Metro Networks.
What Google is preparing to do Nationwide with their regional data centers/Content Server farms will create a vehicle that local Service Providers can use to offset some of these issue. By providing a direct Fiber link to the closest Google COntent/Applications and Internet Gateway these Service Providers will be able to deliver the highest quality/low latency services to their Metro Backbones and team with Google to manage these services with traffic tools far better than they could over the best effort Internet.
Win Win for Google and Local (Last Mile) Service Provider.
Jacomo