Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies (MINTS)Link to August 6 techdirt post, "Broadband Crunch Still Nowhere To Be Found; Internet Growth May Actually Be Slowing".
Excerpt:
While consultants, telco lobbyists and politicians keep insisting that the internet is on the verge of collapse as more high bandwdith apps and services move online, we continue to rely on the folks who actually understand what's going on (and have access to real traffic reports) to give us a more accurate picture. The most reliable on this subject tends to be Andrew Odlyzko who has been calling the claims of a coming broadband crunch a myth ("What Bandwidth Crunch?" from techdirt 9/18/2007) for quite some time.
Broadband Reports points out that Odlyzko is back with his latest analysis of internet traffic (and he actually makes his data available). And, once again, he's quite skeptical of any broadband crunch, noting that internet traffic appears to be growing at a rather predictable pace that can easily be handled by standard technology upgrades.
So it's not just the Olympics that made Middleton's computer lab look like a ghost town yesterday evening? (OK, slight exaggeration, but I've never seen so few computer stations occupied on the day of a library board meeting -- both before and after.)
Retiring Guy's final board meeting as Director, by the way.
