Gossip fills the chat rooms and fear dwells from the crevices of forums as doom-filled warnings have been sent from AT&T within the past week. The big monopoly of a company said that without substantial investment (funding they are lacking) in network infrastructure, theoretically and in all reality the Internet will essentially just run out of bandwidth, true, in just two extremely quick years. That was the part where you were suppose to get goosebumps along the back of your neck…As seen before they pointed the finger as most companies do in times of the blame game. It is broadband’s fault, says AT&T. We, the isp providers, have gone decades of dealing with the small amounts (trickle) of bandwidth consumed by the simple prehistoric voice and dialup modems left AT&T twiddling its thumbs with ease as consumers never exceeded large amoutns of bandwidth, but unfortunately that is not the case at hand. The massive rise of DSL and cable modem service has made isp providers a billion dollar companies in the 21st century and now has AT&T looking at a enormous increase in the quantity of data transmissions. To my surprise experts say that it is on the track to increase another 50 times between now and the year 2015. Simply put…That is enough, stated AT&T, to all but crash the system.
Replying, AT&T said that they are now going to invest a whopping $19 billion to upgrade the backbone and foundations of the net, the routers, servers, and connections where the majority of traffic is processed.
As a direct result, AT&T is using this frantic state in part to point fingers beyond broadband use and so the blame game begins. Viral web videos (especially high-def videos) are the largest and most common bandwidth hog they mentioned. AT&T also said that video alone will devour easily an estimated 80 percent of traffic in just two short years compared to the just 30 percent now. It makes one wonder how YouTube could possible hold its own under such a heavy load on their servers. Ponder on that for a minute and it will help you understand just some of the feats the internet has overcome and the progress we have made in video web availability.
As this all goes underway some are starting to wonder whether this is just AT&T causing drama as they fall off the charts as the #1 internet provider. What ever it is they are causing an awful lot of fear among religious web users and speculators, not mention creating a big ruckus across the internet. I am already starting to feel the tremors myself. To imagine what we would be without internet, is just unimaginable.
source: http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/90339
