The need for more Bandwidth (FTTH Conference)

Probably you already read the original article "FTTH Conference considers what's next", but I think the following comments are interesting…

• "Today, YouTube accounts for about 7% of all U.S. Internet traffic, consuming 50 Petabytes per month or 600 Petabytes a year--which is greater that the entire Internet in the year 2000."
• "Today, the U.S. generates about 20 Exabytes of voice traffic per year. But the move to videophones would generate about 200 Exabytes at least or about ten times the size of the existing world Internet."
• "FTTH may be the key industry for the health of the overall U.S. economy in the next five to ten years."
• "David Spence, staff product manager at Tellabs, noted that service providers, by and large, are looking to leverage what they've already deployed (e.g., GPON), but they also want more bandwidth, longer reach, improved economics, and more intelligence."
• "Ronald Herron, director of network technology and strategy at Alcatel-Lucent, noted that GPON will be sufficient through 2011--if service providers changed split ratios from the currently favored 1 x 32 to 1 x 8."
• "This week's FTTH Conference underscored one undeniable fact: bandwidth requirements will continue to increase."

Who did say "there is not need for more bandwidth"?

Would you like to read an article about the FTTX market in Europe? I am sure it won't hurt you.

"European FTTH debates GPON vs. Ethernet"

Thanks for reading.