Some Say "Exaflood" Could Cripple Internet

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Published May 1, 2007 at 9:53 AM PDT

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

In the very near future, the Internet will have to handle a flood of data that could strain Internet capacity and infrastructure. The Internet Innovation Alliance is one group warning of this coming

Some Say "Exaflood" Could Cripple Internet

Alan Ray (Guest Host): If your garage is like mine, there's a good chance you've got so much stuff in it that you're running out of room for the car. Imagine that sort of thing happening on the internet. You wouldn't think a bunch zeroes and ones would take up a lot of space, but apparently they do, because there's a growing concern that we could run out of room on the internet. Impossible, you say? Well, Bruce Mehlman doesn't think so.

Guest

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Bruce Mehlman , co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance and former Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy for the United States Department of Commerce.

(Photo: Visualization of the Internet from the Opte Project )