[110849] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue Jan 20 18:33:41 2009
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:31:51 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <86171.1232480915@nsa.vix.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> "Cisco VNI projections indicate that IP traffic will increase at a combined
> annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling
> every two years. This will result in an annual bandwidth demand on the
> world's IP networks of approximately 522 exabytes2, or more than half a
> zettabyte."
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10145480-62.html
duh...
from a much earlier thread...
> > that lesson is, the installed base is meaningless, and how we did it
> > before is meaningless, all that matters is getting growth right.
> >
> > Mike O'dell... Mo's Law. 1994
>
> I believe the quote is What installed base?
>
> /vijay
to play devils advocate, how much impact does caching have
on the total traffic flow anyway?
--bill