Internet Outages Could Occur By 2010 As Capacity Stalls

Booming demand for Internet services combined with insufficient infrastructure investment could leave the Web vulnerable to brown outs within three years, a study released Tuesday predicted.

Nemertes Research said Internet providers need to invest from $42 billion to $55 billion -- or 60% to 70% more than current plans call for -- to stave off interruptions to the digital economy that could happen if the 'Net bogs down. "The next Google, YouTube, or Amazon might not arise" if the situation isn't fixed, Nemertes said.

The problem, the group said, is that bandwidth usage is outpacing infrastructure build outs. While core fiber and switching/routing technology "will scale nicely," Internet access resources could soon be overwhelmed in three to five years, Nemertes said.

The trouble could be particularly acute in North America, the researchers said.

"Rather like osteoporosis, the underinvestment in infrastructure will painlessly and invisibly leach competitiveness out of the economy," said Nemertes.

Nemertes conceded that its study, in many ways, represents a best guess at what's happening with the Web. "The Internet is almost opaque to serious researchers, even those with the necessary technical skills, integrity and desire," said the group.

That's because commercial Internet providers closely guard information about usage and technology roadmaps. "Carriers and content providers refuse to reveal their inner workings," said Nemertes, adding that it's understandable that service providers are reluctant to reveal data that might undermine their competitiveness or compromise user privacy.
Nonetheless, "we conclude by urging content and service providers to cooperate with researchers in sharing data," said the study's authors. Nemertes also said Congress should consider tax credits to spur Internet providers to add more broadband capacity.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20071121/tc_cmp/204200341

So what could be done to fix this problem?

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Things will probably get bogged down a bit before they improve, however doom and gloom reports that things will go back to dialup speed make no sense.

The sites like YouTube, and people downloading large files is a result of the fast internet access we enjoy. If access starts slowing down people will stop using the things that need a lot of bandwidth as it will take too long to load.

Maybe that's what's been wrong with wrodforge lately.

The tubes will be fine.

Well, you could post less, that'd help ease the congestion....


C'mon, take one for the team.

How about Congress just leaves the fucking thing alone and lets capacity get added as demand requires it.

My porn!

OMG! We need tiered internet!

Hey! How come we haven't been using......


...... wait for it.......



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They'll do it piecemeal.

Frst, you won't thnk anythng's wrong.

Then yu'll realze letters have started dsappearng t save bandwidth.

Then t'll be whle

fnally cmplete sentences

I'm out of rep, but that was great!

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Because those smilies are using up the precious bandwidth, and if we keep consuming it at this rate soon it will all be gone!

Quoting that just bumped things up to 2009.


Thanks.

Peak bandwidth is just a liberal myth anyway.

No, you're thinking of the clitoris.

If you weren't meeting your "women" in the truckstop mens bathroom you might have more success finding it.

Hey, if you can think of another way to make five dollars, I'd love to hear it.

Ezekiel, Jonathan, I bring thee great news! Our plan is coming to fruition - the outsiders will soon be at our mercy! Fire up the butter churn, we shall party like it's 1599!

It's time for everyone to do your part then. JUSTLEE stop clogging the tubes with your shit posts.

The rest of us did our part by removing the bloviating posts of a certain member. According to government statistics, those Firefly parody threads alone counted for 13% of all internet inefficiency.

I better start saving the internet while there's still time!


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We're doomed!


J.

No, the clitoris is real. The female orgasm, that's the myth!

We need fast internet like Japan.

I want internet so fast the if I even think of porn it is already playing by the time I blink.

^Well, the Japanese are cheating by somehow harnessing the radiation we dropped on them.

Also, where is Al Gore in all of this? He needs to spend less time worrying about global warming and more time worrying about bandwidth usage on his precious creation. At this rate, the internet will be gone before the Earth is, and I don't wanna stick around for an Earth without internet.

The ramifications are uncomprehensible.

On the left is a picture of an internet in 1999, on the right is a picture of the same internet in August of 2007.

There can be no denying this, people.

Dammit Timmy that Riker AV is killing me!

I don't see the internet ever cloggin up so badly that brownouts occur, but then again my limited technical knowledge of the internet and naivety might contribute to that. In my personal imagenings, I foresee that the more likely of situations will be entire office towers filled with banks of servers.

Ted's misspellings are an omen!

I knew those Morse Code skills would come in handy one day.