Keep streaming video, the tubes are fine

07 October 2008 | 15:33 - By Stefano Boscutti

 Pay no attention to rumors that the internet is getting full.

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In fact, over the last 12 months, international net bandwidth in backbone grew 62 percent, while internet traffic grew only 53 percent and filled only 43 percent of the tubes' capacity at peak times In other words, the internet's tubes are growing faster than even YouTube videos can fill them, and they're in no danger of filling up anytime soon. Roll on.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/keep-streaming.html

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07 Oct 2008 17:05 AEST

syms covington

From: pambula

It's not a big truck

I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Why? Because it got tangled up in a big ball with all these things going on the Internet commercially. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material

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New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all.

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