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Loading ...Pointed post on TeleGeography, looking at capacity on the transatlantic run - the route that keeps the Internet alive for the UK.
According to new projections from TeleGeography’s Global Bandwidth Forecast Service, bandwidth requirements will grow 33 percent (CAGR) between 2008 and 2015. At this rate, trans-Atlantic capacity will be exhausted by 2014, and cables providing diversity along geographically unique routes may run out of capacity even sooner.
Just build some more you say. Well, that’s the problem, picking up the thread, Rob Powell writes “Time to Panic in the Atlantic?“:
…When the bubble burst, the dollars it took to build these cables was mostly written off. The ‘balance’ right now is on an incremental basis, when you add in the costs of actually laying a new cable across the Atlantic the numbers don’t add up.
That isn’t the case for all deep sea cables, as Rob points out, the Pacific is a better way, due to higher prices. Traffic is growing and prices aren’t currently going up, so something will have to give in the next few years. Either technology gets better, demand levels off, or prices will have to go up.
A fair question but seems like simple supply and demand to me!?
I know we have to worry about Net Neutrality but I would rather the cost go up so that multiple companies bid for the work than governments step in start owning parts of the interweb.
… did I just say I trust corporations more than government!? Gulp!!