Sorry, but this doesnt hold water with me. Enhancing the internet backbones capacity is simply a matter of installing new fibre switches that are already on the market. Cisco sells equipment that can take a fibre pair that is ALREADY installed and push 32 wavelengths of 10GPS over each pair. That is 320GPS of data over EACH AND EVERY installed fibre pair, hello?
Also, of course there are people whining about the current 'cost' and 'limitations of infrastructure'. Why? because it isnt taxed thats why, so government wants a piece. If you dont think that they have people in the industry whining about it to build a case for taxing data you have your head in the sand. Not to mention the fact that alot of this data is running over terrestrial networks that are owned by companies (such as telcos) that are losing money daily on their traditional revenue sources, and watching other companies rake in the cash riding their networks and not paying them a dime for it while siphoning off their revenue (see Skype? see Skype run?)
Lastly, Google recently bought a substantial amount of Dark Fibre and basically made their own world-wide Fibre Network.
Lets put together the pieces shall we?
What kind of motivation whould Google have for scaring everyone that the world was going to run out of internet capacity? And if they were really that worried about it, then why buy You Tube?
No, I think Google knew what was coming in regards to IP Video distribution, and thus bought their own worldwide fibre network. Back when they were doing it a few years ago alot of folks in technology were asking, why the hell is Goog buying up all the Dark Fibre? I think we have our answer.
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