All ur broadband r devolve to dial up...

[W1nTry]

Hmm...

Internet will brown out in two years

ISPs and telcos have no backbone

By Nick Farrell: Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 7:33 AM

THE WORLD WIDE WIBBLE will slow to a crawl in two years unless ISPs and telcos start investing in infrastructure, someone reckons.

Macworld quotes a study by the Nemertes Research Group, which reckons that a flood of video and other web content is going to flood the Interweb by 2010.

Unless telcos invest about $137 billion in new capacity then everything will go brown and your broadband will slow to modem speed, the report warned.

The telcos are planning investments in infrastructure, but the report says that they only want to spend about half of what they need.

In the US backbone investments of $42 billion to $55 billion will be needed, Nemertes said.

Nemertes came up with its figures by applying something that is a bit like Moore's Law to the pace of internet software development and dividing by its shoe size.

Although core fibre and switching/routing resources scale nicely, Internet access infrastructure, especially in America, is pretty wobbly.

This could suck...

[daniboy79]

but W1n, we're already suffereing with that (those of us using TSTT directly or indirectly) not so?

[W1nTry]

but W1n, we're already suffereing with that (those of us using TSTT directly or indirectly) not so?

Our suffering is different. We suffer cause our ISP is GREEDY, they are reffering to you paying for a 4Mbps connection and it working like a 56kbps cause the NETWORK as a whole is under pressure. We suffer cause our ISP CHOOSES to salt us not cause they can't offer better (though this point is arguable since they still putting in infrastructure).