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A coming bandwidth drought?

January 14, 2008 — 7:59am ET

Are the good times coming to an end? A recent study by Nemertes Research says that limits to Internet bandwidth could leave VoIP callers on permanent hold and the rest of us twiddling our thumbs while waiting for email to download. What's the reason for the coming bandwidth shortfall? It's a number of things, but the big reasons are the rapid expansion in residential broadband deployment and the rising use of bandwidth-intense applications like streaming movies, video conferencing, and mobile VoIP. And just when we were finally starting to get the hang of this whole Internet thing…

For more on why you should be afraid of the bandwidth going away:
- Read the study report at eWeek

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By Jim A | Posted 3:56pm | January 14, 2008

Let's not all be suprised when Google, who has been letting us all know for the last few years that the Internet is about on its knees with Bandwidth limits, comes up with a solution which they call "Cloud Computing". In short massive Data/Content/Apps Servers farms connected nationwide via Fiber that will allow Local (Last Mile) Services Providers access to (Fiber links to local Google Centers) and use of all Google & Apple COntent/Aps at very High speeds, high security and excellent management and control end to end.
What this means for us in the Local (vs Nationwide big Carriers/RBOC) Service Providers field is a means/option to allow Premium Subscribers access to Low Latency Video Streaming, VoiceiP Traffic & MultiPlayer Gaming, plus TV Programming distribution (replacing major aggregators Satellite nets) and other Hosted Applications requiring local Broadband Links. With other low bandwidth or interest demands remaining on the Best effort Internet.

Jim A.

By Anonymous | Posted 4:56pm | January 30, 2009

Whatever happened to all the gigaquads of dark fiber the teleco's were bitching about being underutilized?

And what the hell happened to Butters's Law of Photonics? Did it explode or something while I was streaming a movie?

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