{"id":314,"date":"2009-06-24T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2009-07-07T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T20:16:17","slug":"bandwidth-boom-measuring-communications-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/bandwidth-boom-measuring-communications-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandwidth Boom: Measuring Communications Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See our <a href=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bandwidth-boom-measuring-us-comm-capacity-2000-08-062409.pdfhttps:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bandwidth-boom-measuring-us-comm-capacity-2000-08-062409c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new paper<\/a> estimating the growth of consumer bandwidth \u2013 or our capacity to communicate \u2013 from 2000 to 2008. We found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2013 a huge 5,400% increase in residential bandwidth;<\/li>\n<li>\u2013 an astounding 54,200% boom in wireless bandwidth; and<\/li>\n<li>\u2013 an almost 100-fold increase in total consumer bandwidth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/us-consumer-bandwidth-2000-08-res-wireless.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315\" title=\"us-consumer-bandwidth-2000-08-res-wireless\" src=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/us-consumer-bandwidth-2000-08-res-wireless.jpg\" alt=\"us-consumer-bandwidth-2000-08-res-wireless\" width=\"408\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/us-consumer-bandwidth-2000-08-res-wireless.jpg 408w, https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/us-consumer-bandwidth-2000-08-res-wireless-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. consumer bandwidth at the end of 2008 totaled more than 717 terabits per second, yielding, on a per capita basis, almost 2.4 megabits per second of communications power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See our new paper estimating the growth of consumer bandwidth \u2013 or our capacity to communicate \u2013 from 2000 to 2008. We found: \u2013 a huge 5,400% increase in residential bandwidth; \u2013 an astounding 54,200% boom in wireless bandwidth; and \u2013 an almost 100-fold increase in total consumer bandwidth U.S. consumer bandwidth at the end of 2008 totaled more than &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/bandwidth-boom-measuring-communications-capacity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-note","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}