Maturing Net Grows More Slowly

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has an article covering the slowing growth rate of Internet traffic." From the article: "Growth rates in some territories was staying high, said Mr. Mauldin, at 76% in Asia and 70% in Latin American but even these were down on 2004. Currently the amount of traffic flowing between nations is approximately one terabit per second. If growth rates hold up this is likely to hit three terabits per second by 2008. Much of the growth over the last few years has come about because of the rise in the popularity of file-sharing that encourages people to swap and share large media files, said Mr. Mauldin. "

Comments

Wow

[Alex P Keaton in da]

Who would have thought....
It just goes to show how big something can get in a relatively short period of time.
I plan to do my part towards getting the three terabits a second by downloading some porn and music this afternoon.

Re:Wow

[Alex P Keaton in da]

I love it when the first post gets modded redundant! At least I can get some pleasure out of the fact that I, unlike the mod, know what redundant means!
Of course, that and $2 will get me a cup of coffee...
In all seriousness, this numbers are only going to go up as we get more and more of our TV, Newspapers, Movies and Music over the net...

Memes.

[Poromenos1]

Obviously the traffic is due to Numa Numa, the starwars kid and All Your Base. Doesn't he know anything?!

Conflicted...

[NoTheory]

Gotta love statements like "If growth rates hold up this is likely to hit three terabits per second by 2008" In an article called "Maturing Net Grows More Slowly" about the falling rate of internet growth. I know we've got short attention spans, but how about some internal consistency? ::shrugs:: that or maybe they like meaningless projections.