The Quote: "There's nothing all that alarming going on. This whole idea that the increase in traffic is going to break something or kill something, or the providers won't keep up, seems foolhardy to me."
Who Said It: Eric Schoonover, senior analyst with market research firm TeleGeography.
In Context:Schoonover's firm found that average global utilization of core Internet capacity was only 34 percent, which made him scoff at the idea that increases in traffic "may overwhelm some of the Internet's backbones." That warning came from a much-discussed report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, which cautioned that ISPs may struggle with demand. Schoonover was joined by other experts in saying the Internet would survive.
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