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Internet Headed for Major Traffic Jam, Says Think-Tank

An American think-tank, Nemertes Research, is warning that the Internet could be seriously lacking in capacity within a year, and that it could be little more than an "unreliable toy" by 2012, reports the Times Online. Over the last several years, demand for bandwidth has increased at a dramatic rate -- roughly 60-percent per year. Visitors to YouTube alone generate as much data traffic in a ...