According to a AT&T executive speaking at the Web2.0 eforum the surge on online content is at the centre of the most dramatic changes affecting the Internet today. The ongoing swell in bandwidth demands has been dubbed "the exaflood" Many people fear that the increased data volume could overwhelm the internet.

Infrastructure upgrade??
Well, we have been here before, In 1996, Ethernet co-creator Bob Metcalfe predicted that increasing email traffic would overwhelm the internet. The following year he publicly retracted this statement.

When BT, whose 21CN network upgrade is currently ongoing, were asked if the internet would run out by 2010 their reply was "BT monitors the network very carefully to ensure that we are always ahead of the game, we are currently investing heavy in the core network to ensure that capacity does not become an issue in the future"

What are your opinions on this? Do you think we are heading for internet meltdown by 2010?? Or is this all just hype?

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