The past decade has seen a rapid emergence of Internet use that may in fact lead to a ‘meltdown’ by the time 2010 comes around. Analyst group ‘Nemertes Research’ conducted studies over the past year that suggests the Internet could drastically slowdown over the next 3 years due to core switching/routing bottle necks caused by excessive amounts of data transmissions. The studies show that Public Networks may overload, however they will not fail to operate, moreover suffer from slow access times and bandwidth restraints.
Analyst house Nemertes Research Group has spent the last year analysing both data flows over the internet and the core infrastructure that carries it and concluded that in three to five years serious bottlenecks will occur.
The report echoes earlier warnings by the man who lead the team that built the internet’s predecessor ARPANET, Dr. Larry Roberts. He said last month that unless serious technological advances were achieved in networking then the internet was in trouble.
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