Video killing the Internet star?
By Jason Slater in Reader
Posted in Internet on February 20, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Imagine the old metaphor of the Internet being like a motorway with packets of data carrying web pages like little motor cars. Then came IP telephony and these little cars have to contend with caravans. Then came social media and the cars and caravans had to content with lorries. But wait, what’s this? Digital video is on the horizon and we are trying to run trains down the same motorway. Congestion? Tailbacks? One day we may well look back at the heady days of good old congestion and tailbacks when we are all stopped in the road waiting to move another 100 yards - even those nice guarantee Quality of Service passes your car may be displaying in the window may not help anymore. Let
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