Update from the Standards Vice President: Evolving Distribution

Bruce Devlin

According to Cisco,1 internet traffic is currently about 150 Exabytes per month. Despite how full my inbox always seems, around 75% of this traffic is a video of one kind or another and not just e-mail. To put it into perspective, if you store a month of global internet traffic on commodity, 4 TByte USB hard disk drives, and then make two vertical stacks from them, they would each be tall enough to reach the International Space Station. That’s a lot of data!

Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2019-07
Content type
Opinion
DOI
10.5594/JMI.2019.2916236
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