The Internet Will Survive #
April 21st, 2008 | In Worth Considering
I’ve heard a lot in the last year about how the growing distribution of video and other big files over the internet will effectively kill the thing. The Economist’s Tech.view columnist is not sold on the idea:
While neither the DSL nor the cable companies have beefed up their local connections as fast as the internet backbone operators have boosted their capacity, there’s still enough bandwidth over the last mile for current traffic. And soon there will be a whole lot more—at least for Verizon, Sprint and even Comcast.