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>Internet Demand Is Moving Faster Than Technology, Panel Says
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> (03/16/98; 3:13 p.m. EST)
> By Jeff Sweat, InformationWeek
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>http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/0398iwld/TWB19980316S0017
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>Internet bandwidth demands, fueled by technology such as video and
>IP telephony, are rising so rapidly that backbone providers may not
>be able to keep up, a panel of ISPs and equipment vendors said Friday
>at Spring Internet World '98 in Los Angeles.
>
>The panelists, speaking at a keynote session, said Internet use is
>shooting up more rapidly than expected. According to Alan Taffel,
>vice president of marketing and business development at Fairfax,
>Va.-based ISP Uunet Technologies, the Internet used to double in size
>once a year, but now it's doubling every three to six months -- a
>tenfold increase per year. "We have to radically alter our backbone
>very, very regularly," he said. "We and everybody else are going to
>have a difficult time keeping up with bandwidth demand."
>
>Other panelists concurred, saying building up a backbone is made more
>difficult because ISPs and network equipment providers have to see
>what uses emerge for the Internet. "We're being asked to build
>bandwidth for the future without really knowing what the traffic will
>be," said David Garrison, chairman of ISP Netcom On-Line
>Communications Services, in San Jose, Calif.
>
>And new applications such as video have significant impact on
>existing infrastructure. "As new applications come along, it Æthe
>InternetÅ is gonna break. So we scramble like crazy to try to fix
>it," said Jeanette Symons, founder and chief technology officer of
>Ascend Communications, in Alameda, Calif.
>
>Internet users have come to expect that Internet services are "free"
>after the user has paid infrastructure costs, but the panelists said
>the business model won't hold up as specialized services such as IP
>telephony put extra demand on the network. "Eventually, people will
>have to pay," Symons said. "If they're investing in their
>infrastructure, the money for that has to come from somewhere." What
>still has to be determined is whether users have to pay for the
>service, for time, or for distance.
>
>The ISPs on the panel said the cost of building a "long-haul"
>nationwide backbone, as opposed to short- distance segments, is so
>high that providers may be forced to move to a telephone
>company-inspired distance pricing system. "Distance-sensitive pricing
>may reemerge," Uunet's Taffel said.
>
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>Also in this issue:
>
>- Year-2000 Problem: Can Its Ripples Cripple The Net?
> Web sites addressing the year-2000 problem often display clocks
> ticking to show how little time is left until the next millennium.
> But many of these clocks have one critical flaw. They themselves will
> show the wrong date after ticking past Dec. 31, 1999. The clock is
> ticking on Internet hardware and software - and Internet
> professionals who think their systems are unaffected may be in for a
> surprise.
>- Internet Demand Is Moving Faster Than Technology, Panel Says
> Internet bandwidth demands, fueled by technology such as video and
> IP telephony, are rising so rapidly that backbone providers may not
> be able to keep up, a panel of ISPs and equipment vendors said Friday
> at Spring Internet World '98 in Los Angeles.
>- Australia aims to be Net player
> MELBOURNE, Australia--Australian Prime Minister John Howard said
> today that his government was keen to reap the benefits of the
> information economy, and would not seek to tax electronic commerce or
> put a "bits" tax on the Internet.
>- Net 'Infrastructure Fee' Dropped
> The National Science Foundation and Network Solutions Inc., the
> government-appointed registrar of .com domain names, announced today
> that they will stop collecting a 30 percent surcharge on
> registrations instituted in 1995 to fund enhancement of the Internet.
>- Devices to overtake people on the Internet
> NEW YORK -- World Wide Web site developers today are fighting over
> the millions of users online, but within several years they will be
> wooing a far larger but less animate crowd: a vast array of devices,
> from refrigerators to light bulbs and toys, according to two keynote
> speakers at the Seybold Seminars conference here.
>- Investors Pour $1.8B Into Internet Firms
> Underhyped and loving it, that's the Internet, the number one
> investment for venture capitalists in many cases.
>- New Lists and Journals
> 1) Journal of Public Economics
> 2) Public Illumination Magazine
> 3) Successful Schmoozing
> 4) Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
> 5) International Immunology
> 6) CrashSite
> 7) Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
> 8) Journal of Experimental Botany
> 9) Journal of the National Cancer Institute
> 10) Journal of Petrology
> 11) Logic Journal of the IGPL
> 12) Medical Image Analysis
> 13) Greece and Rome
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