ARPANet Co-Founder Predicts An Internet Crisis

The Insultant writes "Dr. Larry Roberts, co-founder of the ARPANET and inventor of packet switching, predicts the Internet is headed for a major crisis in an article published on the Internet Evolution web site today. Internet traffic is now growing much more quickly than the rate at which router cost is decreasing, Roberts says. At current growth levels, the cost of deploying Internet capacity to handle new services like social networking, gaming, video, VOIP, and digital entertainment will double every three years, he predicts, creating an economic crisis. Of course, Roberts has an agenda. He's now CEO of Anagran Inc., which makes a technology called flow-based routing that, Roberts claims, will solve all of the world's routing problems in one go."

Nice Formula

[lbmouse]

1. Run around screaming that the sky is falling
2. Develop and market a product that fixes the sky
3. ?
4. Profit!

He must have read Chicken Little.

The real internet crisis

[Anonymous Coward]

When the ice caps melt, the tubes will get clogged with dead polar bears.

Cure-All Seed?

[Frosty Piss]

So, how does one get inoculated with your special seed?

Re:Of course, he has an agenda

[chriso11]

I thought the internet was already destroyed when AOL members were allowed on.

Seed?

[InvisblePinkUnicorn]

It's not a watermelon seed is it? I hear if you swallow those, they grow into a watermelon in your stomach. Then maybe you'd forget about that pesky disease and worry more about your serious melon-based intestinal backup problem.

Dear Dr. Roberts

[hackus]

Leave my internet protocols ALONE thank you very much.

We will do quite OK without you meddling with our open standards.

We only need linux, an open TCP stack, and anything that happens I am sure we can handle it with JUST those tools.

Well, that and an army of a million penguin volunteers.

We will do fine, really.

Please peddle your proprietary CRAP OLA somewhere else.

Thank you.

-Hack

Re:Of course, he has an agenda

[sharkey]

Me too!

Re:News Just In

[Intron]

Fiber cable is cheap, so when they lay 100 miles of backbone, they put plenty of fibers in the cable. Dark fiber is all over the place. However, what the article is about is router bandwidth. Adding router ports on the ends of those dark fibers is not cheap. If people were just sending text, there would be no bandwidth problem, but all those idiots linking to video and audio files is a problem.

By the way, have you all seen the "Cat wake-up call" [youtube.com] animation on youtube?

Re:Of course, he has an agenda

[jam244]

Don't bottom post, that's not how Outlook does it.

Me too!

QFT

Re:Of course, he has an agenda

[2short]

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