Will the Internet overload limit expose in 2007?

Without a comprehensive upgrade, the current Internet will not be able to meet the newly arising needs such as high quality video or the strong development of virtual social networking web.

Deloitte's latest report confirmed that demand will exceed supply this year. The global Internet will reach its peak of capacity. Congestion on some "arterial data transfer routes" will take place more frequently.

For example, on February 6, more than 1 million people visited a video of a shooting scene in Iraq published in the Sun. This fact has shown a strong boom in the need to watch online videos.

Fiber optic cable, a vital part of the future Internet.( Source: AP )

Mr. Vincent Dureau - Director of Google's television technology unit - affirmed that the global Internet will have to work hard to provide high-quality online video services.

The growth rate of the global web world is currently hard to meet the extremely strong demand of demand. Therefore, the quality of services is difficult to achieve as high as desired. " It is difficult to provide quality service as the user wants. "

" The number of long online videos that appear on the Internet will increase. I am sure this will happen very quickly, faster than what we think a lot ," said Rob Petty - airline executive chairman. Roo's leading online video service - identified.

Along with that "content thirst" on the Internet is also growing exponentially.

Therefore, analysts believe that concerns about the Internet will not be upgraded and developed to meet the needs is a real thing.

Exploding videos online

Many analysts predict the type of online video service will really explode very strongly in the next few years. Along with that is the continuous growth in demand for a range of other services such as social networks or Internet phones.

Digital content firms like Apple are betting on online content delivery services, especially online videos.( Source: AP )

Not only Internet service providers but also network companies and content providers now have to sit together to find a reasonable solution to use the Internet to provide content. like video or audio.

Verisign - one of the providers of the Internet's "backbone" - has recently said it will invest about $ 100 million to upgrade and expand the bandwidth 10 times within 3 years. coming to meet the demand from a range of new services.

Ken Silva - Verisign's chief security officer - said: " Over the past few decades the Internet has grown primarily based on user interaction needs such as web development, email or instant messaging. " .

" This will certainly have to change. What wasn't previously available on the Internet, even what we thought it would never be available on the Internet, now appears on the Internet. . "

All mobile phones to phones via the Internet and online TV appear and explode strongly on the Internet.

" In the past, we only counted the number of devices connected to the Internet based on the number of PCs connected to the network. This number is no longer as valuable as it used to be ."

Demand is growing

The amount of bandwidth needed to transfer an hour-long video is now equivalent to the amount of bandwidth needed to deliver email back and forth within a year. If it is a high quality video, the demand for bandwidth is much greater.

Gartner analysts estimate that about 60% of the data uploaded from PCs is transferred via P2P peers.

And British technology firm CacheLogic claims 60% of data transferred over P2P networks is video video data. It could be a recorded movie or television program. Usually files like this usually have a capacity of up to 1GB.

Mr. Fredrik de Wahl - CEO of the famous online video service provider Joost - is still optimistic that the Internet will still be able to meet all the needs that users set for it.

" Network-tier facility providers have done a great job extending and enhancing the Internet capacity to meet any user needs such as audio, video or data services. I am completely confident that all future needs will be met ".

Meanwhile, new innovations in the development of new data compression technologies, better utilization of fiber optic capabilities or new service delivery strategies are constantly being offered to enable the network to deliver. get a larger amount of data.

Multimedia platform

Google's acquisition of YouTube is boosting demand for online video. ( Source: AP )

Interoute - a provider of network systems and multimedia platform for many service providers in the European region - affirmed that the company also identifies the continuous development of new needs on the Internet.

Therefore, the company decided to invest about 22 million euros to develop and upgrade the network to better meet the need to provide video services in the video era of high resolution and quality.

" Optical technology has been widely applied throughout our network to better meet the needs of audio and video services from users and customers ," said Oisin Lunny - Director Interoute's multimedia product manager - said.

" That technology has enabled us to meet the need to provide more than 4,000 requests to access videos on YouTube throughout the day ."

" We will continue to strengthen our network capacity. We will continue to invest more to ensure we have the capacity to meet the needs of providing multimedia services in the future ."

Interoute affirmed its multimedia platform, called Share, could provide 10 million streaming videos in one day.

The biggest challenge for the online video industry is how to get the fastest conversion to streaming. Now not only does a visitor see a single video, but at the same time there are many users accessing and watching the video.

Roo's executive director Robert Petty said that the provision of online video services would depend more on the location of the viewers later.

"Bottleneck"

" Quality of service will depend very much on the network infrastructure of each country ," Petty said.

That's why even though the global Internet backbone infrastructure can be upgraded continuously to meet future needs, it ultimately cannot avoid the "bottlenecks". That is the way to every single user.

Broadband services are currently unable to meet the needs of high quality content services.

British Internet service provider BT is currently testing ADSL 2+ service with bandwidth up to 24Mbps. And NTL / Telewest is also testing a similar service but has bandwidth up to 50Mbps.

In the US, Verizon service provider is also testing fiber-optic network service with a promising speed of up to 100Mbps.

The continuous growth in bandwidth capacity means that the demand is increasing constantly.

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