See this comprehensive new Web traffic study from Arbor Networks — “the largest study of global Internet traffic since the start of the commercial Internet.”
Conclusion
Internet is at an inflection point
Transition from focus on connectivity to content
– Old global Internet economic models are evolving
– New entrants are reshaping definition / value of connectivity New technologies are reshaping definition of network
– “Web” / Desktop Applications, Cloud computing, CDN Changes mean significant new commercial, security and engineering challenges
This is just the beginning…
These conclusions and the data Arbor tracked and reported largely followed our findings, projections, and predictions from two years ago:
- “Estimating the Exaflood – The Impact of Video and Rich Media on the Internet – A ‘zettabyte’ by 2015?”
- “Unleashing the ‘Exaflood'”
- “The Coming Exaflood”
And an update from this spring:
Also see our analysis from last winter highlighting the evolution of content delivery networks — what my colleague George Gilder dubbed “storewidth” back in 1999 — and which Arbor now says is the fastest growing source/transmitter of Net traffic.
