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Re: [Fwd: [IP] Japan facing bandwidth shortage due to take-up inbroadband]

  • From: Deepak Jain
  • Date: Wed Jun 09 21:00:53 2004 


With the current facilities as they are, a simple calculation shows that
actual communications traffic will exceed the backbone's maximum
capacity as
soon as five years from now.




Since when is this is a good indicator? If we ignore any of the growth
in facility capacity in the last 5 years, wouldn't we all be in capacity
-plus situations right now? I know we are moving more than our total
capacity from 5 years ago.




In order to handle huge communications traffic without any delay,
large-capacity routers of more than 10Tbps are required. To deal with
growing data communications traffic, it is imperative to reinvest in the
communications infrastructure, such as an expansion of relay-network
capacities by adding new optical fibers and communications equipment.




Sounds like a great place to deploy an HFR-class router if you had to do
it this year. In 5 years, a PC might be able to do it.



Deepak Jain

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