If Cisco is correct, and bandwidth keeps growing about 50 to 60 percent a year, and consumers keep adding video behaviors, then the easy extrapolation is that half of global bandwidth will be used for consumer video apps of one sort or another by 2012.
The challenge for wide area network and access providers is that video provides very-low revenue per bit, compared to any other service.
Lots more bandwidth, provided very economically, is going to be the business challenge.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Consumer Video Drives 1/2 of Bandwidth by 2012
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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