Many areas in technology consists of cycles.
When for example, we want to host more web servers etc, we in turn want more powerful chips to host the traffic load and in turn want the telecom providers to provide for more fiber.
If then, the traffic load comes down because the expected usage of the web servers is not there, what happens to the telecom provider who has provided fiber. I guess there is revenue loss.
The same thing applies to a data center such as the networking within a company where we want faster LANs for applications hosted inside the company.
The reason i am saying this is that i believe that the IT industry has yet again come to a juncture where adding more networking capacity blindly within a company is going to result in wastage. Companies just do not need more networking bandwidth but due to the large growth of employees especially in places like India, they probably need more computing power and better applications which in turn needs to drive the bandwidth.
You may well ask, but "does not more people imply more bandwidth" ? That depends on the type of usage. Applications in companies are more data driven (as against multimedia) and interactive which are not bandwidth intensive but needs more data processing capabilities.
How does this affect the common guy ? Well, if you are the network infrastructure administrator of your company, my guess is you will begin to need very good reasons to ask for more budget to enlarge bandwidth capacity.
When for example, we want to host more web servers etc, we in turn want more powerful chips to host the traffic load and in turn want the telecom providers to provide for more fiber.
If then, the traffic load comes down because the expected usage of the web servers is not there, what happens to the telecom provider who has provided fiber. I guess there is revenue loss.
The same thing applies to a data center such as the networking within a company where we want faster LANs for applications hosted inside the company.
The reason i am saying this is that i believe that the IT industry has yet again come to a juncture where adding more networking capacity blindly within a company is going to result in wastage. Companies just do not need more networking bandwidth but due to the large growth of employees especially in places like India, they probably need more computing power and better applications which in turn needs to drive the bandwidth.
You may well ask, but "does not more people imply more bandwidth" ? That depends on the type of usage. Applications in companies are more data driven (as against multimedia) and interactive which are not bandwidth intensive but needs more data processing capabilities.
How does this affect the common guy ? Well, if you are the network infrastructure administrator of your company, my guess is you will begin to need very good reasons to ask for more budget to enlarge bandwidth capacity.
