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To: Eric who wrote (73839)	6/19/2007 8:23:36 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77397

Warnings of 'internet overload' By Spencer Kelly As the flood of data across the internet continues to increase, there are those that say sometime soon it is going to collapse under its own weight. But that is what they said last year. Web traffic in the 90s was much smaller than today Back in the early 90s, those of us that were online were just sending text e-mails of a few bytes each, traffic across the main US data lines was estimated at a few terabytes a month, steadily doubling every year. But the mid 90s saw the arrival of picture-rich websites, and the invention of the MP3. Suddenly each net user wanted megabytes of pictures and music, and the monthly traffic figure exploded. For the next few years we saw more steady growth with traffic again roughly doubling every year. But since 2003, we have seen another change in the way we use the net. The YouTube generation want to stream video, and download gigabytes of data in one go. "In one day, YouTube sends data equivalent to 75 billion e-mails; so it's clearly very different," said Phil Smith, head of technology and corporate marketing at Cisco Systems. "The network is growing up, is starting to get more capacity than it ever had, but it is a challenge. "Video is real-time, it needs to not have mistakes or errors. E-mail can be a little slow. You wouldn't notice if it was 11 seconds rather than 10, but you would notice that on a video." Rest of the story at the BBC: news.bbc.co.uk

To: Eric who wrote (73839)	6/21/2007 2:29:04 AM
From: tech101	Respond to of 77397

Level 3's Metro Fiber Frenzy JUNE 20, 2007 CHICAGO -- NXTcomm -- Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT - message board) said today it has completed its Internet2 network services backbone, capable of 100-Gbit/s speeds. (See Level 3 Completes Network.) With this announcement, and plans to further expand its metro fiber network, Level 3 says its enterprise business is on the verge of exploding. Level 3 Communications had been aggressively adding to its fiber capacity to reach enterprise customers through a series of acquisitions, including Telcove, ICG, and Progress Telecom. The company now says that it is close to increasing its reach in metropolitan areas by about 20-fold. Level 3 says its network reaches about 6,000 to 7,000 buildings today, with as many as 150,000 more buildings within close proximity of its network as well. "We're going to add about 750 to 1,000 of these buildings in 2007 alone, and that progress rate will increase," says senior VP of offer management Randy Dunbar. For now, Dunbar says, the buildout will be done mainly through fiber installations by Level 3, as opposed to further acquisitions: "We're still working to integrate our recent acquisitions into our network, so I don't see any plans for any M&A in the immediate future." Level 3 was recently awarded a Networx Enterprise contract by the U.S. government, which should also bring in additional enterprise revenues for the company. "We were getting ready for Networx for two years and have always been big in government," says Dunbar. — Raymond McConville, Reporter, Light Reading lightreading.com