| Unless... backbone providers and ISP's stop increasing bandwidth to their peers and stop increasing backbone bandwidth, then this is just patently false.
Most providers are upgrading to keep up with usage. If a provider doesn't, everyone with that provider is going to notice right away.
Unless there is some new service that everyone starts using overnight that backbones just can't keep up with fast enough, this just isn't going to happen.
Most competent providers run at a maximum of 50-60% of a link, so as to have enough bandwidth in a failover situation.
So for something to collapse the Internet, it would need to make all traffic jump up in a matter of weeks or months by over 40%. This is just not a realistic expectation. |
