Friday, February 22, 2008

impending computer gridlock

last year i read a news article about the impending gridlock that our internet servers is due to suffer by 2010. it sent shivers down my spine. what will happen? how will we survive? now that we are almost 100% dependent on the internet.

Annabella Bulacan - AHN News Writer, stated in her article that United States-based analyst firm Nemertes Research on Saturday warned over the emerging internet gridlock by 2010 as it further noted that upgrading would cost around $137 billion globally.
In a report that was partly funded by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) which campaigns for universal broadband in the United States Nemertes expressed alarm on the alleged "drastic slowdown as the network struggles with the amount of data being carried on it."
"We must take the necessary steps to build out network capacity or potentially face internet gridlock that could wreak havoc on internet services," stressed Larry Irving, co-chairman of the IIA in a report by BBC News.

what does this mean for us end users?

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