The U.S. Department of Labor for the fifth consecutive year, the most common disorder of the companies has been the loss of Internet connection to broadband, with 39 percent of companies reported some form of failure. In addition, the report concludes that the long-term failure could be catastrophic.
Communications for companies including credit card transactions, training and other functions essential to the mission. Business is increasingly dependent on Internet communication.Ten years ago, has done much of this work on the dedicated satellite communication links. But more and more, this transaction occurs over telephone lines on the Internet.
Disruption of mission essential function to extreme damage to the company. Such a failure can have serious legal and financial consequences. Examples of this could threaten the health and safety of persons (eg, hospital systems).
In recent years, the mission-critical functions have been managed with dedicatedNetworks, often by satellite. But today, the United States, hundreds of satellite communication stations each month are removed.
The growth of the Internet
Internet traffic continues to grow between 60% and 80% per year (Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) President Matthew J. Flanigan). "The Web infrastructure, and Google is not, the scale," said Vincent Dureau, Google Video chief technologist.
The current perception is that there is a significant excessCapacity in carrier networks. This led to a reduction of investment in the installation of fiber optic guided. But after the TIA, this is not correct. With historical pilot bandwidth, fiber, and the recent trends in the use of equipment, networks and knowledge, the system is near its capacity limit. Carriers of the United States to run fast bandwidth and capacity constraints may face this year.
The telecommunications sector has been in recession 2000thThe boom and bust in telecommunications has been with the boom and bust in the bubble "was dot-com" Internet stocks. The dotcoms got the most publicity, but in the telecommunications industry accounted for a greater share of the market capitalization has gained and lost since the dot-coms. The result was a bit cheaper than the cost of replacing technology. competing technologies have suffered.
The role of the HDTV revolution
The rapid adoption of HDTVimportant force in the system. If Joe Q. Public purchases of new video equipment, the role of DVD in the system retested. Many now choose to watch movies over the Internet instead of DVD-Download. This trend should continue.
"Most Internet traffic is peer-to-peer, and most of that is the video. Every year we have to invest substantially just to the user experience to hold. In fact, they (the investment) is indeed taken, "Richard Alden, CEO of ONO, a major Spanish cableCompany told the Cable Europe Congress in Amsterdam.
Despite the relatively small number of users, research indicates that systems such as BitTorrent and YouTube account for more than half of all Internet traffic. In 1995, the total amount of data over the Internet backbone processed about 1.5 million GB. In 2006 this figure had risen to over 700 million UK.
Jonathan Arber, a technical analyst at Ovum, said: "The problem is that media companies begin to use thesePeer-to-peer methods to distribute videos, but the ISPs are the ones to pay for it. "
ABI Research estimates that increasing the number of video downloads of 215 million this year (2008) to 2.4 billion dollars in 2012. This figure is all the more impressive when you much greater percentage of those downloads does so in the 2012 high-definition files that are much larger (A non High Def DVD movie is approximately 3 GB / hour depending on size HDTVEncoding: MPEG-2 (MPEG-2 is the standard of DISH Network, is used MPEG-1 used by Direct TV) encoded high-def video file size approximately 9 GB / hour, a light, 1280 x 720 video size is 150 GB / hour, and a clear, is 1920 x 1080 video file size of 350 GB / hour).
In 2010, forecasts call for 80-90% of Internet traffic to video transmission.
The growth in video downloads could be a traffic jam on the Internet that the development risk of the network, soGoogle. Web sites such as YouTube (owned by Google) reinforce the problem and new developments do not exacerbate the problem.
bandwidth-intensive applications such as downloading the video, even a small fraction of Internet users may degrade service, and may even crash the Internet, or parts thereof ("The Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy," FTC Report, 2007).
The investments in the Internet is down
The satellite companies are not very profitable in recent years.Satellite Business Systems (a joint venture of Comsat, IBM, and Aetna) has spent over a billion dollars for a satellite broadband communication via satellite from the supply network for business. It was a total flop.
Currently, the tendency to rely on the Internet for fiber-commerce. Hundreds of remote stations (the industry refers to satellite stations such as PES or the earth station employees), are retired each month in the United States. Relying on localInternet (fiber) is cheaper. is the main reason for the optical fiber is cheaper that the market was financed (some say more funding) during the bubble-com. With excess supply, prices are very cheap.
Carriers can not develop their budgets for investments, because if a lack of bandwidth is not a matter of debate, a lack of capital. Sales growth of telecom companies was poor. Borrow money to add capacity is difficult in this environment. "The tension could be waste bandwidth"What data current industry-cannot seem to convince Wall Street that the investment is necessary.
"National policy and government finance in the innovation and diffusion of broadband directly affect the ability of the network operating company for investment funds in capital markets. As far as these measures inject uncertainty in the market, threatening the potential return on investment in infrastructure or impairment the ability to maximize networks operate in a mannerCapacity and efficiency, such a policy would directly and adversely limit the ability of the network operating companies to extend the data traffic as via the Internet "(David McClure, U.S. Internet Industry Association).
The result of these trends is unclear. The conclusion that the Internet is likely to be overwhelmed was hit by a large number, but it appears to be largely a mystery outside the universities.
When the bean counters in time and more resources to respond to the fiberProjects, none of the worst-case scenarios is necessary. But he cautioned that the planners for business-critical applications into account the potential for systematic reliability of the Internet want.