Turns Out There's Plenty Of Investment In Increasing Backbone Capacity
from the well,-look-at-that... dept
Remember just last week when we were told that there wouldn't be investment in internet backbone because of fears that network neutrality would become legalized, and it wouldn't make economic sense? Apparently, someone forgot to tell the network operators. A new research report notes that investment in backbone upgrades is exploding, with just about every network operator already working on upgrades or planning to do so in the next year or so. It may be true that there are still business model questions that need to be worked out, but the idea that investments won't happen due to fears over network neutrality laws seems wrong. Again, if there's demand for bandwidth, there will be business models that make sense.
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Level3 Backbone Analysis
It's a threat to other players in the fiber business, because L3 has a patent on the methodology. They also have plans to double available bandwidth every two years.
Net Neutrality will enable existing (ATT/Verizon) in the fiber business to utilize their infrastructure in the way they want, at the expense of it's customerbase, and without having to utilize or think about licensing new technology.
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Re: Level3 Backbone Analysis
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Level 3
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Level 3
> The network was constructed with multiple conduits, Level 3 can deploy new generations of optical fiber and equipment far more quickly and economically than its competitors – a critical capability in an era of rapid technological change.
> In April 2000, the Smithsonian cited Level 3 as a Computerworld Laureate for its historic achievement in creating a new kind of network infrastructure.
http://www.level3.com/wholesale/reach/index.html
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Proofreading
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Re: Proofreading
No, it's correct. According to the report, the telcos were so worried that network neutrality would be mandated by law that they wouldn't invest in network buildout. They were worried that network neutrality would be written into law.
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Why do you think Ed came out and shouted the term "Freeloaders"
Of course, it does make a nice headline, not much substance, but whatever.
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content
pornography 10%
pirated music 10%
pirated videos 35%
badly done home videos 35%
VOIP 5%
all other traffic 5%
The internet owes its existence to pornography and copyright piracy.
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