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Re: Internet's bandwidth health still in trouble, report says
From: Bruce Ediger <eballen1 () qwest net>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:04:07 -0700 (MST)
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
Then, Nemertes projected that traffic growth would eclipse supply by 2010, but the firm now says it has adjusted its projections to reflect deteriorating global economic conditions."
Wait, doesn't this just indicate that a simple linear projection into the future just doesn't work? I mean, there's always something that prevents an infinite linear growth, negative feedback of some sort, or even a failure at some level, causing the situation to go non-linear. The "deteriorating global economic conditions" cited just prove that the initial linear projection is just a bad guess. The fact that (in retrospect) most horrible things end not with a bang, but a whimper seems to confirm that non-linear increases in negative feedback often ameliorate what otherwise would constitute a Disaster of Biblical Proportions.
More at http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/112108-internet-bandwidth-trouble.html?hpg1=bn
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