Internet: Full by 2010
E-commerce
21 April 2008
The internet will reach capacity by 2010, telecoms firm AT&T has claimed.
Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs, told delegates at this week's Westminster eForum, the current web was running out of room.
"The surge in online content is at the centre of the most dramatic changes affecting the internet today," he said. "In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire internet today."
He estimated by 2015, new traffic would multiply current content by 50 times. Without further investment "we are going to be butting up against the physical capacity of the internet by 2010", he said.
He put the blame firmly on video and user-generated content, which is filling one site, YouTube, by eight hours each day.
BT has begun its roll out of its new 21CN Network, although far faster speed are promised by the UK's Ebbsfleet network, which will use fibre optics.
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