We’ve published a lot of linear and log-scale line charts of Internet traffic growth. Here’s just another way to visualize what’s been happening since 1990. The first image shows 1990-2004. Continue reading »
What Mobile, Video, Big Data, and Cloud mean for network traffic
See our new report “Into the Exacloud” . . . including analysis of: > Why cloud computing requires a major expansion of wireless spectrum and investment > An exaflood update: what Mobile, Video, Big Data, and Cloud mean for network traffic > Plus, a new paradigm for online games, Web video, and cloud software
Tyler Cowen’s Techno Slump
Have we utterly deluded ourselves? Are we in a technological Dark Age? Here is my analysis in Forbes of Tyler Cowen’s new e-book essay The Great Stagnation, which argues we’ve eaten all the low-hanging fruit and maybe we’ll have to settle for less.
World Broadband Comparisons, an update
New numbers from Cisco allow us to update our previous comparison of actual Internet usage around the world. We think this is a far more useful metric than the usual “broadband connections per 100 inhabitants” used by the OECD and others to compile the oft-cited world broadband rankings. What the per capita metric really measures is household size. And because …
