Until recently, global backbone traffic was driven by voice. Then email, Web browsing and peer to peer traffic became significant traffic contributors. Clearly, though, high definition and other television-based traffic will be the dominant driver of global bandwidth demand, argue researchers at Information Gatekeepers. By 2010, as much as 94 percent of global traffic will be HDTV or IPTV content, IGI predicts.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
WAN Will Be Driven by Video, Obviously
Until recently, global backbone traffic was driven by voice. Then email, Web browsing and peer to peer traffic became significant traffic contributors. Clearly, though, high definition and other television-based traffic will be the dominant driver of global bandwidth demand, argue researchers at Information Gatekeepers. By 2010, as much as 94 percent of global traffic will be HDTV or IPTV content, IGI predicts.
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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