No space in cyber space
Though this is predicted to happen only next year, I think we have already started getting the impact. My personal experience with my PC indicates just that. Very frequently, I am seeing 'Page cannot be found' message. When I click on "Try again" twice, the page opens.
This is what they call 'Brown Outs' that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research.
The gloomy prediction is the usual supply demand gap. The reasons for the sudden prediction are
* more people working online
* the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube
- services such as the BBC’s iPlayer.
Starting next year, our computers will be going offline for several minutes at a time. But
from 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable toy”.
Well, why can't they just increase the bandwidth?
But they do sir. In the U.S. telecoms companies are spending pounds 40 billion a year upgrading cables and supercomputers to increase capacity.
Personally, I feel the Internet monster YouTube and other video sharing websites are
eating away our bandwidth.
To validate that, here is a figure that says the amount of traffic generated each month by YouTube is now equivalent to the amount of traffic generated across the entire internet in all of 2000.
The much less known monster that is also called “net bomb” Nemertes is BBC iPlayer, which allows viewers to watch high definition television (HDTV) on their computers.
Do you know the the amount of traffic that gets generated through net bomb? This figure is expressed in quintillion which is a million trillion bytes.
In layman terms that is easy to assimilate this figure, one exabyte is equivalent to 50,000 years’ worth of DVD-quality data. Monthly traffic across the Internet is running at about eight exabytes.
Though this is predicted to happen only next year, I think we have already started getting the impact. My personal experience with my PC indicates just that. Very frequently, I am seeing 'Page cannot be found' message. When I click on "Try again" twice, the page opens.
This is what they call 'Brown Outs' that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research.
The gloomy prediction is the usual supply demand gap. The reasons for the sudden prediction are
* more people working online
* the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube
- services such as the BBC’s iPlayer.
Starting next year, our computers will be going offline for several minutes at a time. But
from 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable toy”.
Well, why can't they just increase the bandwidth?
But they do sir. In the U.S. telecoms companies are spending pounds 40 billion a year upgrading cables and supercomputers to increase capacity.
Personally, I feel the Internet monster YouTube and other video sharing websites are
eating away our bandwidth.
To validate that, here is a figure that says the amount of traffic generated each month by YouTube is now equivalent to the amount of traffic generated across the entire internet in all of 2000.
The much less known monster that is also called “net bomb” Nemertes is BBC iPlayer, which allows viewers to watch high definition television (HDTV) on their computers.
Do you know the the amount of traffic that gets generated through net bomb? This figure is expressed in quintillion which is a million trillion bytes.
In layman terms that is easy to assimilate this figure, one exabyte is equivalent to 50,000 years’ worth of DVD-quality data. Monthly traffic across the Internet is running at about eight exabytes.