Friday, Feb 29, 2008
What if? Eureka Moment
vnunet.com: Internet facing 'meltdown' by 2010
Being privilieged to visit the HPC website. It has taught me a lot, opened my eyes to many things. Being able to read various views in relation to house market conditions and all the relative evidence to support various points of view. The reason for this submission, was due to reading opinions expressed on HPC. And by pure chance, a simple conversation, the answer to a question was glearingly obvious. What if the consumer using the expanded data volumes (excessive MB's) and as a consequence intentional or otherwise. Imagine switching on your PC, to find that you & everyone could not connect to the world wide web. It would be instantanious, and would effect all, a short period of darkness would descend, this situation is in my view very real.
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1. denzil said...
I would love it. People may actually have to converse with other human beings again.
2. Montesquieu said...
Not a drama - completely fixable in relatively short timescales if the need arises.
The projections are based on figuring in rapid uptake of things like video on demand services which may or may not transpire but can be turned off (or restricted) if need be, should the intrastructure prove a bottleneck particularly as the new IPv6 protocols allow for routing of internet traffic based on priority (ultimately, allowing speed of packet delivery to be varied between different types of traffic ie fast for online things like video, slower for non-instant things like email).
So don't worry. Remember y2K?
3. Davidg said...
"The Internet is set for a major collapse in 1996" - Bob Metcalfe
4. Bye_to_let said...
I actually agree with Denzil but not the article though... do they think that IT giants and Internet Software Providers, the likes of Microsoft, BT etc. are unaware of the market and demands of users and the way in which things are going in the industry?
Not only do they know, they make and sell their products based on the future needs of consumers. And even if the internet was pushed to breaking point, there is no single point of failure. It would be like if a power station were to explode - only the area dependant on its supply would be affected. There would be signs well in advance of a full-on internet outage so I can't see that one happening as much as we may want it to...
5. Stevie Dee said...
This is going to happen shortly, April-May 2008. In my view. political or otherwise.. if it doesn't then I'm ready for the sanitorium..
6. Hpc Is Here For Me said...
Network Bandwidth capacity is massively under utilised and with the available fibre optic technologies now and yet to be evolved, we havent even touched the available global capacity, who are these people?
7. Sold 2 Rent 1 said...
This could be as bad as peak oil or peak food.
The internet, and the future technological revolutions that will be built on it, will be needed to solve the problems of peak oil and food.
8. drewster said...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but prophecies of doom have always been with us. Here's an article from November 1999:
The Register: Internet doomed to fail, say experts
Web to be nothing more than sex pics and self-obsessed Americans
"This week [November 1999] a leading MIT scientist and the UK's largest telecomms company demonstrated that the Internet's expandability may collapse within the next 10 years."
I'm sure someone here can even find a Mayan calendar which predicts the end of the world in 2012. Come to think of it, that would spare us the Olympics....
9. Henryweston said...
Oh no! how would we all cope if we didnt have the internet? or mobile phones? the world will end!!
10. Feel The Need To Comment said...
what drewster says. i'm the biggest bear i know but having run an internet company for over a decade (through the dotcom crash) i hear this all the time. last decade VOIP was going to kill the internet and now its video. compared to enviomental and financial collapse this is not something to lose sleep over - this is one situation that you can chuck money at to solve.
11. Root said...
Sorry, but as a systems administrator (Cheif Computer Biatch) for the largest private equity company in the UK which happens to run the largest online gaming concern in the UK (Eurobet, Coral and Gala Bingo) and previously the Lead Systems Administrator for websites like International Save the Children, BSkyB's Intranet and a whole other bunch of recognisable names, that, as they say "is a complete load tosh".
Night.
;^)
12. Van Hoogstraten said...
This article is nonsense - there is so much spare fibre capacity its not funny - it just needs to be lit up.
Spam is a bit of a problem which could conceivably lead to email suspension as providers notorious for spam get blacklisted by other ISPs but apart from that, things would just be slower as latency goes up.
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