Monday, October 10, 2011

Bandwitdh

Think about bandwidth - Cisco made headlines in May announcing a next generation router – the CRS 3 - that will revolutionize the internet by increasing downloads to unheard of speeds.

A single fully configured CRS 3 router would

· Download the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in just over one second

· Support a video call for every man, woman and child in China - simultaneously;

OK – so size (discussed on my last post) is essentially zero and bandwidth is essentially infinite.

Off to a good start. On my next post, I'll discuss Viewing.

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