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AT&T Claims Internet to Reach Capacity in 2010

Posted by timothy on from the calls-for-even-more-paper-towels dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET News has a piece in which AT&T claims that the Internet's bandwidth will be saturated by video-on-demand and such by 2010. Says the AT&T VP: 'In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today.' Similarly: 'He claimed that the "unprecedented new wave of broadband traffic" would increase 50-fold by 2015 and that AT&T is investing $19 billion to maintain its network and upgrade its backbone network.'"

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  1. i bet that quote... by kris.montpetit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is part of their/Comcast's previously mentioned and pathetically wrong argument against net neutrality by doomsday mongering about an exaflood that, like Y2K, gigalapses, and marijuana, will be the end of civilization as we know it-unless we allow them to start throttling bandwidth and selling off top speeds to companies

  2. Re:That quote... by eihab · · Score: 5, Informative
    I liked this one:

    "In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today." I'll be waiting for my 1 Terabits per second connection any day now, and even then I don't think 20 households would generate more traffic than the infrastructure we have today.

    Given how impressive his title is I'd say that last one is most likely... From the article:

    Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T Doesn't sound like a techie to me, of course he should know better and at least consult with someone before making absurd statements like this, but oh well, what do you say..
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  3. Re:THANK YOU AT&T!!! by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Informative

    FYI PCI-e 1.1 supports 250 MB/s (250 million bytes per second), so x16 gives you 4GB/s. Most network speeds are given in bits per second, so thats roughly enough for 32Gbps transfer.

    PCI-e 2.0 is double speed compared to PCI-e 1.1, you'll have it in newer mobos.

    Your HDD (if its a sata-2) will support 3 gbps (3 gigabits per second) transfer, though that's burst rate so you'll only get half that on average - 150MB/s, but you could put your drives in a RAID0 array to increase that.

    If you don't believe me, look it up on wikipedia. I promise I've not just gone there and changed the numbers.