| Glut? There was no bandwidth glut in the 90's.
I worked for 2 national backbone ISP's through the 90's and there was never a glut of bandwidth. We were always struggling to keep peering links from being saturated by adding new ones. As was everyone I knew working at UUnet, Sprint, PSI.
There was, and still is, a fiber glut. Lots of unused or underutilized fiber out there. And with the DWDM technology that can light it (Eighty 10, 40, or 100gbit wavelengths on one fiber) there could certainly be a bandwidth glut.
But I foresee it as being just like the 90's. Always enough backbone bandwidth, but always trying to keep it from filling up, just different applications running on the backbones now.
Not sure who told someone there was a bandwidth glut in the 90's. |
