November 19, 2007
The Exaflood
Technology experts are calling it the exaflood, a massive wave of new video and other bandwith intensive traffic headed for the web.
Forecasts say Internet users will generate 161 exabytes of new electronic data this year alone.
A single exabyte includes so much data that if it where converted to DVD quality video, it would take more than 50.000 years to watch. And Internet users are now generating nearly half an exabyte of new data every day.
At the current rate of growth, in the year 2010, 20 typical US households will use as much Internet capacity as the entire world did in 1995.
It is predicted that 80% of that traffic will be generated by online video. Some experts believe this could overwhelm existing network capacity and bring the flow of world Internet traffic to a crawl.
[Excerpts from a video on the Internet Innovation Alliance website on the Exaflood]
Related article in USA Today.
Interesting: 'Poor man's broadband (PMB). Students to download big files faster by avoiding the internet.
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