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Originally Posted by erol
Bandwidth - how much ?
This year x
next year 1/2 x
year after 1/4 x
year after 1/8 x
thats the reality of coat of bandwidth. We have seen the same example with other computing resources. People used to use 'sophisticated' techiques to save resources like computing power (coding in machine code), or storage space (like HD compression) - but with the price of these falling at moores law rate it's cheaper, simpler and more effective to 'throw resource' at them. With bandwidth though the issue of control is the real issue. Who will control what you can do with your connection. At the moment the end user has control (TCP=transmission CONTROL protocal). The current network owners would love to get that control back - and QoS is a great 'excuse' to do it. What you will end up with is a network that looks more like the mobile phone companies networks than the internet. Throwing bandwidth at the problem is not the expensive option - it's the cheap option !
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I can only agree 50/50 on this one m8...
50% yep you are right. We need more bandwidth and a damb good worldwide infrastructure as soon everything is going to be piped by the net. Phone, tv, internet and even video phone. Without this infrastructure in place this is not going to happen !
50% I dont think that the solution just lies in throwing bandwidth at the problem. Software and hardware compresion does have an impotant role to play. Dont forget - we are going to have routers and other equiptment and they have to be able to handle the bandwidth. Its only sensible to minimise the ammount of data that we send no matter how big the pipe. If we dont we are going to get what happens on the U.K.'s motorways.... Gridlock.
IMHO for all this to hapen there needs to be an independant body that looks after it all and works with all the countries envolved. They allso need to be in charge of security. The problem with a global infrastructure is that it makes an idea way of people attcking other people and this will happen. Perhaps a new tcp suite desighned for the job is the way to....
Its a bright future but if we rush in we could be talking about a worldwide crash of everthing. How much would it cost if this system was brough down... Billions and billions !!!! The electronic and of the world... Sounds far fetched but no ever thought code red would ever happen !
Thought planning and investment are the keywords - lets walk before we start to run......
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