Will The Internet Support Enterprise 2.0?

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Irwin Lazar, Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

March 13, 2008

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The NY Times has a front page story today on the potential for high-bandwidth applications to overwhelm existing and planned Internet infrastructure.  The article cites a recent study we did at Nemertes on Internet infrastructure in which we concluded that rising application bandwidth demands would cause contention issues in North American access networks in the next 3-4 years (no, we didn't say that the Internet was going to collapse, contrary to much of the reporting of our study).  Anyway, the point here is that Enterprise 2.0 application architects need to be increasingly aware of the capabilities of the underlying network to support increasingly complex and bandwidth-hungry applications (especially those relying on video).  Bandwidth contention is a problem that will likely get worse before it gets better.

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Irwin Lazar

Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages research operations, develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in areas including VOIP, UC, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration, contact center and customer engagement.

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Irwin is a blogger for No Jitter and frequent author for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect and Interop. Irwin's earlier background was in IP network architecture, design and engineering.

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