Larry Roberts, a team member on the original Arpanet, says in a piece for Internet Revolution that the Internet is in trouble. According to Roberts, high-bandwidth content is outpacing our ability to pay for expansion. His solution? Flow router technology his company (Anagran Inc.) is developing and selling.Roberts's opinion is also picked up by the Christian Science Monitor, which wonders if it isn't just time to scrap the entire Internet and start over. We're not sure that it's a coincidence that the majority of people preaching of bandwidth armageddon are either engaging in politics or trying to sell a product, but the debate has been vibrant.

Andrew Odlyzko, a researcher at the University of Minnesota, has been getting a lot of press lately for stating that his research shows that traffic growth is actually decelerating. Industry claims of 500 percent growth rates are actually closer to a very manageable 50-60 percent, says Odlyzko.

We're really starting to wonder if all the dire warnings of a coming "exaflood" are based more on public relations or actual science. Lawyers, lobbyists and salesmen want you to believe the bandwidth apocalypse is at hand, while most network administrators believe they'll be able to adapt to whatever user demand arises.