Video Sites Choking Internet Bandwidth – YouTube is the killer?
www is at a risk, and the threat is largely from the rising web2.0 “rich media” sites.
Moving images, far more than words or sounds, are hefty rivers of digital bits as they traverse the Internet’s pipes and gateways, requiring, in industry parlance, more bandwidth. Last year, by one estimate, the video site YouTube, owned by Google, consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet did in 2000. (nyt)
As per researchers, the demand for Internet can overshoot the supply by 2010.
The problem is not really the global network, but rather the local network and the capacity of network (i.e. switches, routers/pipes) in the neighbourhood. The real issue is about lack of investment in telecommunication infrastructure and cable networks.
If American investment lags behind..the nation risks losing competitiveness to countries that are making the move to higher-speed Internet access a priority.
“The long-term issue is where innovation happens,” ..“Where will the next Google, YouTube, eBay or Amazon come from?”
As far as India is concerned, the network connectivity is too bad and ISPs are manipulating the Internet capacity to charge a premium price.
Aside, China has overtaken US in terms of number of Internet users (China has 220 million, US has 217mn) and by 2008 end, Chinese surfers will touch 280 mn!
What’s happening in India? When will we cross 50 million user base?
not one day passes without me cursing the uber slow speed of my broadband connection…. Broadband Internet in India is yet to see a growth like the mobile sector… I wish there is someone sensible enough in TRAI or the communications ministry to change the internet stupidity in India and make it competitive and attractive
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( http://news.cnet.com/2100-1034_3-6237715.html ) and various articles covered in the past few months have all been focused around how Ineternet usage and bandwidth would be 50 times more than today and the content created then would jam the internet space.
Typically utilization of bandwidth and usage is directly proportional to the no.,quality & results of QUERIES that a user inputs from the moment he logs on. These queries can be as simple as searching, or as intense as uploading. At the end of it, its all about minimizing the no. of queries.
We are trying to research the potential ways of minimizing these queries by pre-defining most searched “keywords” & “categories”.
By not entering any search query, or typing for searches you would be skipping multiple steps and help in saving energy and bandwidth.
If we all try and add to this pre-defined list of searches, we can help save far more energy, bandwidth and money.
Help us all move towards the green technology.
http://www.lazii.com
(currently in beta stage)