[94882] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Feb 12 11:19:25 2007
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:01:34 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <89224.1171216266@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
> (i'm guessing kc will be on the phone soon, to get from them their data?)
While I'm sure people were looking for headlines, I think the broader
implication in the report was current pricing power not supporting new
investment.
> ...
> 
> A recent report from Deloitte said 2007 could be the year the internet
> approaches capacity, with demand outstripping supply. It predicted bottlenecks
> in some of the net's backbones as the amount of data overwhelms the size of
> the pipes.
> 
> ...
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6342063.stm
>