Video may break the Interweb
Found on The Inquirer on Saturday, 10 February 2007
Video download services such as YouTube are pushing Interweb capacity to breaking point, a Google executive warned.
Vincent Dureau, head of TV technology at Google, said that the web will soon struggle to meet rising demand for online video.
Speaking at the Cable Europe Conference in Amsterdam this week, Dureau said: "The web infrastructure, even Google's, does not scale. It is not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect."
In its Predictions 2007 report, Deloitte says increased demand for online video and social networking sites like MySpace and Bebo are "pushing bandwidth to breaking point".
Shouldn't that problem be solved already, especially in the US? After all, citzizens paid $200 billion for promised upgrades (which have never been realized).