Enterprise Technology By Phil Edholm

Archive for November 14th, 2007

Bandwidth Growth

One topic that continues to intrigue me is the relationship between the demand for bandwidth created by the applications we run and the bandwidth available in the networks we use. When these are out of alignment, the system is unbalanced and can create significant operational and user issues.

This thought process led to the Edholm's Law of Bandwidth 4 years ago and thoughts on how to manage delivery of content to different networks that a device might be connected to. You can click on the link to see the article published by the IEEE in 2004. I need to write a quick update to the Law of Bandwidth at some point, and I ...

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