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Will Internet TV Crash the Internet?
Stony Stevenson writes "Analyst groups and Cisco have come out saying that the internet is heading for a crash unless it increases its bandwidth capabilities which are being strangled by the increased use of Web TV.
Stan Schatt, research director at ABI said: "Uploading bandwidth is going to have to increase, and the cable providers are going to get killed on bandwidth as HD programming becomes more commonplace." He added that the solution to the problem is to change to digital switching and move to IPTV. "They will be brought kicking and screaming into the 21st century," he said.
Cisco weighed into the argument, adding that it had found American video websites currently transmit more data per month than the entire amount of traffic sent over the internet in 2000."
The summary mentions Web TV choking the internet...didn't that die off a while ago when computers became ubiquitous?
Just "gittin-r-done," day after day.
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45. Don't forget the 3 redundant slashdot stories today.
What's the deal with everybody forgetting the ???? step? You know, if you were working as a CEO, your company would be bankrupt by now.
If I were an isp I'd just send a truckload of war3zed pr0n dvds via standard mail to every customer so they stop pr0ning the bandwidth
Dazzling product literature and advertising require at least ISDN speeds. But the major corporations upon which we are relying to upgrade Internet access past 28.8Kbps are the local telco monopolies, which like our postal service and public schools have become little more than jobs programs.
Damn, it's still just as relevant today!
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According to ONN the Internet already crashed.
...and 1000s of Deaths Expected in Hati from Cat5 Hurricane. In Soviet Haiti, Internet kills you!Registered Linux User #449434
If it crashes, just reboot it.
As they say in the news biz, if it bleeds, it leads.
"...and 1000s of Deaths Expected in Hati from Cat5 Hurricane.!
Is this why the internet is gonna crash? Coz all the ethernet cables blew away?
Let's see you try recruiting with:
"You will serve up to 15 months at a time in various warzones."
A team at Cisco decided to build a big router. This was all the engineers wet dream, and management didn't really think it was any need for anything this big. But since this was in the middle of the .com boom, the team got the green light. Engineering called it the "Big Fucking Router" or BFR, and marketing called it "Big Fast Router".
The 12000 or the GSR was introduced in 1996(?) it was wildly successful, and generated 1 billion dollars in sales the first year, and went up from there.
As a result, when the engineers introduced their next wet dream, the HFR or "Huge Fucking Router", the argument was "We can build it faster and bigger than anyone will need, and by the time it is introduced it will hit the market window perfect, and with great success"
The HFR, or CRS-1 is a 100Tbps router. (500 developers for 4 years or $500M).
Only problem: the boom is over, and few are buying.
Solution: Create doomsday scenario that only the HFR can cure.
Just some multiplication: A Youtube stream is 100kbps, so the HFR can handle a billion of these. That is more than there are internet users in the world.
don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org