I learned a new word today
Image from Broadcast EngineeringExaflood.
It is derived from the word “exabyte” - which is eqaul to one quintillion bytes. Numerically, that would be: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
I came across “exaflood” today while reading this article on Network World. The term is new to me, and probably new to a lot of readers since a quick Google search only found 28,500 instances of it (which is next to nothing for Google search). The word was coined by Bret Swanson in this WSJ opinion piece in January 2007.
Exaflood describes the pending deluge of traffic that many predict will overwhelm today’s Internet infrastructure. Peer-to-peer networking and the …
