| USA Today Nonsense - Actual report interesting Karl and folks
The story "capacity problems in Internet" is wildly incorrect, and should come out of the rear end of a male cow. They even badly misquoted the press release in the lead.
I'll be writing a note to the editor at USA Today - anyone interested in joining please emails me daveb the usual dslprime.com.
I did however spend two hours with the report, which is mostly solid and very different from the press release. Whan you actually work through the data in the report, you discover the real "conclusion" is that local DSL and cable will not be fast enough in a few years if people want to watch a lot of HD video. In particular, the upstream is wildly insufficient for what the Internet can deliver in five years.
That's probably true. AT&T is planning on offering no more than 1 meg upstream for the foreseable future, and that's already a limit. Cable if they don't upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0 has a similar problem, and the upgrades are not guaranteed for 2010-2012. Johna is very clear that the rest of the network, especially the core routers, can handle anything likely to be thrown at it.
Reporting from a press release from a known AT&T advocate without checking it is very poor work.
Dave Burstein
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