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Internet Traffic Still Growing Quickly

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mostly-files-sent-in-order-to-have-your-advice dept.

linuxscrub writes "I guess the previous articles about internet traffic doubling/[time period] being wrong were wrong? A new IDC report states that internet traffic will nearly double annually until 2007. They even use /.'s favorite unit of capacity/storage, the LOC. They predict that internet traffic will be 64,000 LOC/day! Wow, 64000 LOC, that sure sounds impressive!!"

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  1. I think I know what the new driver will be. by blair1q · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been hitting the Internet Radio pretty heavily recently. 128 kbps streams whenever I can get them. Not many are free, still, but there's enough to keep me happy.

    Which makes me wondere if the Next Big Thing won't be Internet TV.

    Not crummy little windows, mad pixelation, and choppy frame rates, but real, HD-quality, big-window content-on-demand, bypassing the satellite and cable companies entirely.

    Good-bye "channels". Hello IPv6 URI's.

  2. Pointless unit by brejc8 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yet another pointless unit to make people go woo. Along with the width of a hair.
    They might as well talk about the total mass of all electrons and photons (you never know) ammounting to the waight of 29 elehpants with the number growing to 30 elephants and two donkeys. Have these people hear of SI units?

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  3. What about Broadband? by physman · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It is intresting to consider that nobody yet has considered the rise in broadband (especially in the UK) on the rise in internet traffic. Whereas previously the standard 56K (if you where really lucky) restricted internet usage it terms of download speed and bandwidth, broadband has opened it up and now massive files (e.g. whole Linux distriubtions) can be downloaded in less than a day.

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  4. Slight potential issue here... by Shoten · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Keep in mind that IDC sells the document that details this fact. They also sell other things that put it in their best interest for this report to say what it does. After all, do you think they'd be much use to anyone as an intelligence gathering organization if they only had to report "nope, not much going on here!" Remember, whenever someone talks about something that they are selling, consider that the statements should be verified before taken as fact :)

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  5. P2P by gmuslera · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Even counting spam and mailing lists, increased average web page size, and streaming, I think the main component of this usage should be P2P networks, is the only thing that I could think that transfer so much traffic between a very large amount of people.

    If that is true, and all continues more or less the same, by 2007 consumers traffic will count for more than just 60%