Traffic Jams on the Web

Published Thursday, January 01, 2009

Web users' voracious appetites for YouTube videos, pirated music and movie downloads could have an unintended consequence: choked and slow Internet service for many small and medium-sized businesses in electrical distribution. Indeed, studies released by Nemertes Research (www.nemertes.com) and IDC Research (www.idc.com) indicate a slow-down could come in as little as two-to-five years. “Today's broadband is tomorrow's traffic jam unless we continuously invest, innovate and improve our network's ability to handle the traffic,” says Bruce Mehlman, co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance (www.internetinnovation.org). Small and medium-sized electrical distributors are among the users ...

Traffic Jams on the Web

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