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The Internet of Junk Things isn't going to overwhelm the Internet's capacity any time soon, according to Cisco's rolling Visual Networking Index (VNI) report. What the IoT will do, if Cisco's got its numbers right, is account for the bulk of new connections to the Internet in the next five years, suggesting that The Borg doesn …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Forecasts

    are like statistics; 68.2% are made up on the spot

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    1. theblackhand
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      Re: Forecasts

      Here's the 2010-2015 predictions to judge by:

      http://www.ieee802.org/3/ad_hoc/bwa/public/sep11/nowell_01_0911.pdf

      2010: 20EB/month

      2011: 28EB/month

      2012: 38EB/month

      2013: 50EB/month

      2014: 63EB/month

      2015: 81EB/month

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  2. PleebSmash

    "high-definition video"

    Reminder that "high-definition video" is a minimum of 1280x720 by definition. H.265 and future standards lower bandwidth needed for each video resolution. If people don't care about 4K streaming, the zettabyte rush will slow down.

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  3. Yugguy

    It doesnt matter what they want

    It will be a cold day in hell before I let my fridge order my milk online.

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