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"Exaflood" Disaster Appears Unlikely

Posted by kdawson on from the just-because-you-can't-swim-doesn't-mean-we're-all-drowning dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "By now, we've all heard of the 'coming exaflood' that will drown the ISPs in data and smite the wicked P2P users. Fortunately, the 'exaflood' is unlikely to be a disaster. Internet traffic growth is falling year-over-year, and there's plenty of core bandwidth — now handling about an exabyte a month in fact — but the last mile is still slow. So there's a reason that Comcast & co. are worried about losing to P2P, but the Internet itself isn't likely to suffer a meltdown any time soon. And there's plenty of data to counter anyone who says otherwise."

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  1. Yes but... by crohan · · Score: 5, Funny

    And there's plenty of data to counter anyone who says otherwise.

    So long as everyone does not access these copious amounts of data simultaneously ;-)