Web 2.0 to drive surge in network traffic: Chambers

2.0 talk was also on the tongues of telecom titans in Chicago this week at the NXTcomm conference. Folks were talking about telecom 2.0 and the evolution that's occurring because of collaboration and new technologies. In his keynote, John Chambers said telecom and the Internet industries are entering a stage of reinvigoration and evolution due in large part to the upsurge in use of Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies--like Cisco's telepresence videoconferencing systems and recent WebEx Web collaboration acquisition. Use of these types of technologies will double, triple and even quintuple the traffic loads on the Internet and other IP service networks over the next three years, Chambers said. These trends are increasing traffic loads on Cisco's internal networks by 300 percent to 500 percent per year, he said, and will allow 20 broadband-connected homes in the United States in 2010 to generate more traffic than the entire Internet in 1995.

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