Race with Space by Barbora Kasparova

According to the study done by Nemertes Research Group, which is an independent analysis company, we might soon run out of Internet capacity (the study is published on http://www.nemertes.com/ii). Seems like we're running out of everything nowadays. We'll be soon facing world with no oil, ecologist have been warning us repeatedly of running out of clean water to drink and fresh air to breathe, with the rate human race is reproducing, we'll sure have no living space either. Despite of all this, human race has somehow become resistant to these warnings and threats, besides we all have our own troubles to deal with. Somebody else will obviously deal with the aforementioned ones. In fact, they'd better hurry, because the Internet capacity trouble is scheduled to show its impact as soon as in 2010. Who is to solve the Internet capacity problem for us then and how? It is up to backbone providers to invest into Internet infrastructure and, well, it will certainly cost them a fortune. As shown by the study spending for "...global Internet infrastructure may grow from $20.5B in 2007 to $29.9B in 2012. In other words, capital expenditure for Internet infrastructure may be $160B over the next five years."

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071119/tc_infoworld/93498;_ylt=Al5OYjh438eq9PDmhTpV.58jtBAF

by Barbora Kasparova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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