Saturday, March 28, 2009

The Internet has yet to stop working

Spurred by a new wave of Skype-linked families, Hulu-watching flash mobs, and HD-video downloaders, global internet traffic is likely to quadruple by 2012. That’s an internet 75 times larger than it was just five years ago. It will be generating 27 exabytes—nearly 7 billion DVDs worth—of data each month.

Internet service providers are simply ramping up their infrastructure upgrade plans in response to the traffic growth.

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