[1st-mile-nm] Internet Exaflood

[Richard Lowenberg]

This is the latest in a series of reports on the rapid increase in network
traffic (in the US).   It provokes concern and calls to action for
investments, deployments and policies to address this critical aspect of
our economies and local-global society development.
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STUDY: U.S. NET TRAFFIC TO GROW 50-FOLD BY 2015

Estimating the Exaflood: The Impact of Video and Rich Media on the
Internet

http://www.discovery.org/a/4428

New technologies are dramatically transforming the Internet and could
boost IP traffic in the United States more than 50-fold within the next
decade, according to Estimating the Exaflood: The Impact of Video and Rich
Media on the Internet, a report released by the Discovery Institute. The
24-page report, co-authored by Bret Swanson and George Gilder, a senior
fellow at the Discovery Institute, describes the technologies and trends
that will drive Internet growth. It projects IP traffic levels overall and
by application. By 2015, video calling and virtual windows, for example,
could total 400 exabytes a year, or about 40 percent of U.S. traffic. The
report estimates that by 2015 annual U.S. Internet and IP traffic will
reach 1,000 exabytes, or one zettabyte, which is one million million
billion bytes of data. A zettabyte is roughly equivalent to 50 million
Libraries of Congress. According to the report, capacity in broadband
access networks to homes and businesses must expand by a factor of between
10 and 100 over the next few years. New network investments expanding
bandwidth, storage, and traffic management capabilities in the U.S. could
total more than $100 billion in the next half-decade alone. Technology
remains the key engine of U.S. economic growth and its competitive edge,
the authors contend. Policies that encourage investment and innovation in
our digital and communications sectors should be among Americas highest
national priorities, they believe.


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Richard Lowenberg
P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110,  505-603-5200 cell

1st-Mile Institute
New Mexico Broadband Initiative
www.1st-mile.com
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