2010: D-day for the Internet as it hits "full capacity"?

According to Yahoo! Tech AT&T is saying that without substantial investment in network infrastructure, the Internet will essentially run out of bandwidth in just two short years. The massive rise of DSL and cable modem service in recent years has had AT&T facing a monstrous increase in the volume of data transmissions. And that's set to increase another 50 times between now and 2015. That's enough, says AT&T, to all but crash the system. So it's investing $19 billion to upgrade the backbone of the Internet, the routers, servers, and connections where the bulk of traffic is processed.

AT&T says video alone will eat up 80% of traffic in two years vs. just 30% now thought that makes you wonder how YouTube doesn't collapse under the pressure.

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