Archived Like water, bandwidth is also not an unlimited resource. Do you agree? (technology)
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Archived Like water, bandwidth is also not an unlimited resource. Do you agree? (technology)
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[–] fricknmaniac 0 points 28 points 28 points (+28|-0) ago
I'd say it's in the category of technically limited, but effectively unlimited.
Technically because there's only so much bandwidth that exists at a single moment, so that's not unlimited.
However it's unlikely that we'll ever be able to use enough bandwidth to reach the overall limit at any given moment. Even as we create new things which use up more bandwidth, we're expanding how much bandwidth we have. Bandwidth only even becomes a problem at the very end of the chain and because of aging infrastructure that ISPs have no interest or reason to upgrade short of Google Fiber or city run fiber forcing competition.
[–] ElspethTirel 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago
A+ comment.
Only thing I want to add is that we are very likely already in a world where bandwidth is not an issue as it stands. It's perception of an issue caused by companies like Comcast and Verizon who want to use "data caps" and their excuses as a way to pry money out of people.
[–] vuke69 6 points -6 points 0 points (+0|-6) ago
Lol, not even close. Data demands for an individual increases by 50% a year, and total Internet transit doubles about every 18-24 months.
Current peak usage exceeds 80% on any given day. If upgrades stopped, you'd know it relatively quickly (in weeks/months). Within 3-6 months it would be unusable.
[–] TripleA 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Well Played Mate!
[–] rudditrenbyfascists 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I call bullshit.
Bandwidth can easily b overwhelmed with new kinds data.
For instance mp3's saturated dial up.
Video initially saturated typical early 'broadband'. In fact, netflix acknowledges this by creating local mirrored servers to dish video up geographically.
As 3D modelling becomes more and more true to reality the information density will spike again.
What will the next choke be?
Maybe massively realistic vr environs, maybe we start copying consciousness to files... who knows. But we can probably saturate whatever we create.
[–] Hektik ago
Most data is really bottled necked by switches and receivers aka infrastructure, not data rate/bandwidth, bandwidth has no theoretical limit in the EM spectrum. The limiters for data would be power required to send the signal and sensitivity of the equipment picking up the transmission at least for EM. Money/materials/falloff radius distance would be the only limiting issues with regard to EM but not the bandwidth itself.