{"id":1494,"date":"2007-11-22T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/2007\/11\/22\/internet-brownouts-feared-by-2010-as-user-traffic-soars\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:54","slug":"internet-brownouts-feared-by-2010-as-user-traffic-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/11\/22\/internet-brownouts-feared-by-2010-as-user-traffic-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet &#8216;brownouts&#8217; feared by 2010 as user traffic soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?1792\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rising demand for bandwidth-hogging Internet activities such as swapping music files and watching YouTube videos threatens to outstrip the Web&#8217;s infrastructure within three years, creating the spectre of service &#8220;brownouts&#8221; and potentially thwarting the development of the next Google-sized application, an industry-funded study warns.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the talk about the Internet&#8217;s infinite possibilities, a study by U.S. firm Nemertes Research found that projected increases in Internet traffic are poised to eclipse the capacity of the Web&#8217;s broadband access infrastructure \u2013 essentially the points where users &#8220;plug in&#8221; to the Internet via cable, phone or fibre optic lines \u2013as early as 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Rising demand for bandwidth-hogging Internet activities such as swapping music files and watching YouTube videos threatens to outstrip the Web&#8217;s infrastructure within three years, creating the spectre of service &#8220;brownouts&#8221; and potentially thwarting the development of the next Google-sized application, an industry-funded study warns. Despite all the talk about the Internet&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}