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The Internet traffic jam
Last night CBC in Canada had a great video piece on the coming Internet traffic jam. About halfway in Nortel’s Philippe Morin is interviewed with his insight. Again this topic ties back into Nortel’s recent 40 gig news. Also included is a great shot of Nortel’s telepresence solution if you haven’t seen it before.
The best line in the entire clip has to be the closing, when a teenager is asked what she would do if the Internet were to slow down considerably:
“I would just get frustrated and not want to spend my time on the computer, and maybe do something useful.”
The complete piece is below (about 3 minutes long).
UPDATE: Here’s a link to another new article on Nortel’s 40G from the Ottawa Citizen.
[…] just came across this CBC news report (Hat tip to Nortel Buzzboard) about how the Internet is apparently headed for a massive traffic, which CBC anchor Peter […]
March 28th, 2008 at 10:26 am from All About Nortel » Blog Archive » Hey, We Need Some More Bandwidth!