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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. 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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  2. 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.