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Every day, the world's leading video sharing service transmits a data equivalent to 75 billion e-mail, causing many experts to worry that the global connection network will " crash anytime ".

In the early 1990s, each e-mail was just a few bytes long. By the mid-90s, websites with images appeared and MP3 format was born. Users started wanting to exchange megabytes of photos and music, so the monthly traffic increased dramatically.

Not only that, since 2003, people have witnessed another change. The generation of YouTube users requires the ability to upload videos of up to gigabytes in total.

" Network bandwidth is expanding, but the feature of video is real-time operation. Users will not notice the difference if e-mail is transmitted 9 or 10 seconds late, but slowly a second when Watching the video was a problem , "said Phil Smith, chief technology officer at Cisco Systems.

Therefore, it is not surprising that every year people hear someone predicting "the Internet is about to collapse ".

However, Cisco representatives said that during the dotcom boom, billions of dollars of investment was poured into fiber optic lines. What Internet inheritance is now enough to meet human needs for a long time. "In addition, routers have gone through a steady development and can now handle 92 terabits per second ," Smith said.

However, even if routers can handle all the data it receives from cable routes, there is another problem: not all networks are equipped with fiber optic cables. Many connections still use copper wire from tens of years ago.

In addition, just an earthquake, such as a cable breakdown last year, is enough to make a part of the network infrastructure paralyzed.

In general, most service providers believe that the Internet will work stably, and skeptics claim that the collapse of the Internet is only a matter of time.