Internet backbones today

Skills: none

IT concepts: good news (expanding rapidly, performance improving), bad news (uneven global capacity)

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Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology (communication)– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation (audio)

Backbones, good news and bad news

Rapidly expanding backbone capacity

International bandwidth growth – 50% per year

Major recession year

Internet languages – millions of users

Data source and more detail

2010 ICFA SCIC Network Monitoring Report

Rapidly improving backbone performance

Throughput from SLAC to regions of the world

Telegeography regional bandwidth, 2005

Telegeography regional bandwidth, 2010

Internet backbones today

Skills: none

IT concepts: good news (rapidly expanding, performance improving), bad news (uneven global capacity)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.