A study that hit the news today announced that given projecting
spending by ISPs, there will be Internet gridlock by 2012. The demand
is growing far faster than the infrastructure to sup****t it.
There are ways surely other than spending billions to improve the
capacity of the Internet.
1. Use of low priority packets and low usage time for bulk file
transfer.
2. massive caching of popular files. Caching should also be able to
take advantage of end-user disks for public use using digital
signatures.
3. hardware compression on both ends.
4. replacing poor compression video with the best.
5. more use of client side computing instead of HTTP so that visuals
are generated locally. Websites you view frequently use a scheme like
the Replicator to keep your copy up to date for local browsing.
6. zoning laws to ensure any new building or one undergoing major
renovation gets wired with optical fibre.
7. universal system to use nearly all local wireless LANs for cell and
laptop communication.
8. Pricing to discourage sending uncompressed data or data.
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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