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Internet Doomsday
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Internet Doomsday

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/90339

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Doom-filled warnings arrive from AT&T this week. The company says that without substantial investment in network infrastructure, the Internet will essentially run out of bandwidth in just two short years.

Blame broadband, says AT&T. Decades of dealing with the trickle of bandwidth consumed by voice and dialup modems left AT&T twiddling its thumbs. The massive rise of DSL and cable modem service in the 2000s has had AT&T facing a monstrous increase in the volume of data transmissions. And that's set to increase another 50 times between now and 2015. That's enough, says AT&T, to all but crash the system.

In response, AT&T says it's investing $19 billion to upgrade the backbone of the Internet, the routers, servers, and connections where the bulk of traffic is processed.

Of course, AT&T is using this breathlessness in part to point fingers beyond simple broadband use. Web video (especially high-definition video) is the most commonly mentioned bandwidth hog. AT&T says video alone will eat up 80 percent of traffic in two years vs. just 30 percent now. One wonders how YouTube doesn't collapse under the pressure. Hmmm.

Meanwhile, many are wondering whether this is prelude to AT&T announcing (or not announcing, but doing anyway) a traffic prioritization/shaping system like Comcast has been tinkering with... and which has earned it nothing but scorn. Net neutrality (which would forbid premium pricing for certain Internet applications and destinations) is a topic that continues to be hotly debated on Capitol Hill, and telcos are anxious to kill the idea since they'd love to be able to charge additional money for different kinds of web traffic. If the whole Internet is about to crash, well, that makes AT&T's argument all the more compelling, doesn't it?


Is there any real validity to this claim?


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Re: Internet Doomsday

quote: (post)
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/90339



Is there any real validity to this claim?


No.


The AT&T spokes persons are just being whiny b*tches.


The future of internet can be massive bandwidth satellites or this new type of encryption communication I heard of called quantum encryption.

I am going into wireless networking and wireless security because, lets face it, that will be the future of the internet. Need to upgrade your company's bandwidth because you are an ISP? Upgrade your wireless equipment based on new IEEE standards for wireless communications!


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Y2K for the ipod and youtube generation.....


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Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
Y2K for the ipod and youtube generation.....
People of that generation were alive Y2K.

And no, I dont think the internet will reach "full capacity" as its bandwidth is always being expanded. If there was ever a risk, it would assuredly be expanded sufficiently


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OH GOD i BETTER DOWNLOAD ALL THE PORN I CAN NOW.


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OH GOD i BETTER DOWNLOAD ALL THE PORN I CAN NOW.


But that won't help when they make new ones. You can never win this one.


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I shall end my life.


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lol this sounds strangely like a South Park episode.


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lol this sounds strangely like a South Park episode.




Seriously, I am reminded of the "Wal-marts" episode.


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Hahahaha.

Scary for "White" people.

Us nigga will just "LOL rape" and collect food stamps.


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Hahahaha.

Scary for "White" people.

Us nigga will just "LOL rape" and collect food stamps.


If we have the hurricane Katrina incident to go by anything, the African Americans will not limit the raping and pillaging to just white folk. yes (and white folk will not be spotless either.)


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more Y2K bullshit?


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Re: Internet Doomsday

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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/90339



Is there any real validity to this claim?


I don't even know have to read that entire article to call bullshit.


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Originally posted by dadudemon


Seriously, I am reminded of the "Wal-marts" episode.


A lot more like ''Over Logging''.


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Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
Y2K for the ipod and youtube generation.....


Here, read my thread on this. It's Y2K38, and will happen on January 19, 2038 at 3:14 in the morning (GMT) and 8 seconds.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f70/t478063.html


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Originally posted by caedusrulesall
Here, read my thread on this. It's Y2K38, and will happen on January 19, 2038 at 3:14 in the morning (GMT) and 8 seconds.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f70/t478063.html
Hmm......I'll be sixty something and drunk, so I am gonna miss it. stick out tongue


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Hmm......I'll be sixty something and drunk, so I am gonna miss it. stick out tongue


Lucky. Nobody believes me now, so I'll probably end up being the one guy going out to fix it.


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Originally posted by chillmeistergen
A lot more like ''Over Logging''.


Yes...that would fit this better.

I was reminded of the "wal-mart" episode because it seems that more and more people are becoming addicted to the internet and they can't stop.

By addicted, I mean...they HAVE to watch their youtube videos, check their e-mail/myspace/facebook, they HAVE to download the latest greatest "something", etc.

That's what the 30% to 80% reference reminded my of. The "Wal-Mart" is playing a bigger and bigger role in everyone's lives.


Get this....right now, it is up in the air on myself getting to take home a laptop that is configured with a VPN connection that works specifically with our LAN. I will also be given a blackberry that is configured on a IP system for phones so that any calls can be forwarded to that phone. I work in IT support so basically, I fix computers and report outages and do level I network administration. I would ONLY have to be "on-call" on the weekend for 48 hours straight. I would NOT have to go to work the other five days of the week.

I am like, "holy shit"...the inter-networking is becoming so advanced that I may not even have to go to work to work. no expression In my organization, I would have to do HARDLY any work over those two days. I did the math and calculated for future growth and I would only have 15-20 "incidents" over the weekend after the newness of have weekend support kicks in.

What if more and more companies do business like this? I know that telecommuting for work is becoming more and more common. I just love it. I would be able to go to school for MORE than full time...I could take 21 hours a semester, still work full time, AND still be able to workout and hour mon-fri. The possibility that I could end up doing this for my job demonstrates the importance of the internet and the versatility is provides. My ISP offers more than enough bandwidth to perform all of my jobs functions in a timely manner (such as remote installs and TFT(trivial file transfers)) and in the future they plan to upgrade infrastructure to provide even MORE bandwidth.


With this expanded demand on internet bandwidth and capability of newer or improved technologies, the ISPs will either have to adapt to the market or die the slow death of capitalism. As long as there is a demand for the products and services through and related to the internet, the ISPs will adapt.

I know from reading dslreports.com all the time that the ISPs of America are almost all working on some sort of future proofing or upgrades.


This article was nothing but unfounded hyperbole.


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Originally posted by caedusrulesall
Lucky. Nobody believes me now, so I'll probably end up being the one guy going out to fix it.
call you then?


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Originally posted by dadudemon
Yes...that would fit this better.

I was reminded of the "wal-mart" episode because it seems that more and more people are becoming addicted to the internet and they can't stop.

By addicted, I mean...they HAVE to watch their youtube videos, check their e-mail/myspace/facebook, they HAVE to download the latest greatest "something", etc.

That's what the 30% to 80% reference reminded my of. The "Wal-Mart" is playing a bigger and bigger role in everyone's lives.


Get this....right now, it is up in the air on myself getting to take home a laptop that is configured with a VPN connection that works specifically with our LAN. I will also be given a blackberry that is configured on a IP system for phones so that any calls can be forwarded to that phone. I work in IT support so basically, I fix computers and report outages and do level I network administration. I would ONLY have to be "on-call" on the weekend for 48 hours straight. I would NOT have to go to work the other five days of the week.

I am like, "holy shit"...the inter-networking is becoming so advanced that I may not even have to go to work to work. no expression In my organization, I would have to do HARDLY any work over those two days. I did the math and calculated for future growth and I would only have 15-20 "incidents" over the weekend after the newness of have weekend support kicks in.

What if more and more companies do business like this? I know that telecommuting for work is becoming more and more common. I just love it. I would be able to go to school for MORE than full time...I could take 21 hours a semester, still work full time, AND still be able to workout and hour mon-fri. The possibility that I could end up doing this for my job demonstrates the importance of the internet and the versatility is provides. My ISP offers more than enough bandwidth to perform all of my jobs functions in a timely manner (such as remote installs and TFT(trivial file transfers)) and in the future they plan to upgrade infrastructure to provide even MORE bandwidth.


With this expanded demand on internet bandwidth and capability of newer or improved technologies, the ISPs will either have to adapt to the market or die the slow death of capitalism. As long as there is a demand for the products and services through and related to the internet, the ISPs will adapt.

I know from reading dslreports.com all the time that the ISPs of America are almost all working on some sort of future proofing or upgrades.


This article was nothing but unfounded hyperbole.
wtf?


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