Communication Breakdown
Communications from the world of, er, communications. And other stuff.
Monday 15 January 2007, 10:27 AM
HD movies + P2P = ISP pain
Enck's take is that ISPs are drastically underestimating the demand they'll be facing. It'll be interesting to see whether they'll crack down on the bandwidth-munching rapscallions or change the term "unlimited bandwidth" from its current implication ("limited bandwidth") to its literal meaning. Hmm.
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It'sa not so bad. I remember the DOTNET (*) panic when some bright spark invented HTML. The Internet was designed for text, said the doomsters, and if everyone started to look at pictures all the time there's no way the infrastructure could cope.
We have absolutely lashings of unused bandwidth in the backbones, no shortage of fabbo technologies to use it, and plenty of proposals to get it from the fibre to your door. The restrictions are down to lack of imagination and unwillingness to invest, not because it can't be done or it won't make money if we do.
R
(*) Death Of The Net. At varlous times, graphics, public email, Usenet, Voice over IP and Lycos were all predicted to bring the Internet to its knees
