Is the Internet filling up?
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008There has been talk for some time that the Internet faces several capacity problems. One is the simple fact that we may soon run out of new IP addresses in the present “dotted quad” system . That’s supposed to be taken care of by a new system of longer numerical addresses called IPv6. A more difficult problem is that capacity to transfer information is being stretched by ever more traffic. AT&T says that the system will reach its limit in 2010. ZDNet reports:
Speaking at a Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned that the current systems that constitute the Internet will not be able to cope with the increasing amounts of video and user-generated content being uploaded.