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Some Say "Exaflood" Could Cripple Internet

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.

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

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