| Video downloads may break the net |
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| Written by Simon Toat | |
| Monday, 12 February 2007 | |
 The internet may be at breaking point if video downloads continue to increase, a Google executive warned.
Speaking at the Cable Congress in Amsterdam, head of technology for Google, Vincent Dureau told delegates that popular video sites such as Joost and Google's own YouTube could put the internet's backbone under extreme pressure."The web infrastructure, and even Google's doesn't scale. It's not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect," he said. There are two problems that plague video playback on the internet, the lack of bandwidth and jitter caused by latency in the network. Basically this means that when you watch a video its stops and starts and makes for a bad experience. A recent report by Deloitte found that daily traffic is around two petrabytes per day, double what is was a year ago and that is a lot of traffic. It also said that "over a third of all internet traffic in 2007 is expected to be in the form of mostly illegal, peer-to-peer video". It said that ISPs will struggle to keep up with demand and streaming video would suffer as a result. So stop downloading those pirated videos of Lost, we know who you are!!! |
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