Behind all the tech talk, the basic fact is that the bandwidth guzzlers are the media files, Audio, Video and images. And these are always increasing thanks to better hardware (capturing devices). What is going to tilt the scales back to equilibrium is the technology to compresses these files to more manageable sizes. It makes no difference if you are on the cloud or not. This data has to be transmitted. The compression technology presently used has not seen a proportional change vis a vis the input files - say a HD video file. If a HD movie of 90 minutes duration was say 50 MB instead of 5 GB, where is the question of a bandwidth cap. This is exactly what is happening at chazz studios.

Without verifying or validating Ciscos forecast, the fact remains that traffic will grow to unmanageable proportions. Bandwidth caps or costly bandwidth will not act as a deterrent and should not too. The solution is definitely better compression of any media as these are the guzzlers. We at Chazz Studios identified this and are working on the worlds most powerful Media compressors. Imagine a 1 hour video file in a few Kilobytes.

The future looks bleak since the bandwidth requirements will always increase and there is no hope of any ISP coping with that demand. With ever increasing media file sizes aimed at better resolution the need of the hour is an improvement in compression technology which has remained stagnant for decades. Sensing this www.chazzstudios.com is developing a new set of media compression technologies which will level the field.

I feel that the memory guzzlers are Multimedia files. The rest are insignificant. What if there were a better compression technique for Multimedia? Like say 50% on existing compression? How would a technology like this affect this discussion about harddisk and cloud storage? This would even reduce the strain on bandwidth.