White Papers

The Internet's Capacity to Handle Fast-Rising Demand for Bandwidth

Tags: network infrastructure, infrastructure, network, applications

Overview Industry and academic experts are increasingly concerned about the Internet's capacity to continue to handle the fast-rising demand for bandwidth, unless investments in Internet infrastructure accelerate substantially. However these elements are measured, the growth in demand for bandwidth is outpacing the growth in supply. This begins with the rapid growth in broadband access. The spread of broadband access has been accompanied by large increases in the use of bandwidth-intensive applications, especially voice, music and video. Absent a significant expansion in network infrastructure, the Internet's capacity could be strained, limiting consumers' ability to fully enjoy its services.

By downloading you agree to our Terms and Conditions. These include information regarding use of your personal data.

Publisher: US Internet Industry Association
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Aug 4, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Bandwidth Issues, Broadband

Similiar White Papers

Ultra Wide Bandwidth Communications Towards Cognitive Radio

Featured white papers

The Value of Location Intelligence in the Communications Industry

Pitney Bowes

Public Services are under pressure, the challenge is to do more with less. How do you improve citizen satisfaction, increase cost efficiencies and improve service delivery? The power of location intelligence is helping many local authorities...

Download now »
Best Practices for Translating Customer Satisfaction into Revenue

Citrix Online

Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a foreign language...

Download now »
HP print solutions and 3M

Hewlett-Packard (HP)

The objective for 3M was to optimize office printing infrastructure at 3M locations worldwide, reduce total cost and environmental footprint. Some of the business benefits acheived by switching to HP print solutions...

Download now »