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Merit Network Blog Internet Traffic Growth Slowing World-Wide, But Utilization Up in U.S.     By Donald J. Welch - September 08, 2008 9:50 am This article in Network World by Jim Duffy points out that the pace of Internet Traffic Growth is declining. It grew 53% last year, down from 61% the year before. Over 50% growth is still a formidable number, but the decline in the rate of growth is speculated as an indication that the Internet’s collapse is not as eminent as is feared. However, Duffy points out that there are strong regional differences. Specifically, in North America the utilization is climbing as investments in capacity lag the traffic increase. Another data point in the article gives some indication as to why. Broadband subscriber growth has been slowing since 2001, while traffic growth is just now starting to slow, so the rate of demand growth per user must have been growing at a healthy pace. A good question is whether this trend will continue. Saturday, the WSJ ran a story on “The Family Guy” expanding into the web. Web-only TV hasn’t come to dominate entertainment yet. If it does, imagine the impact it could have on Internet traffic. Right now TV programs are broadcast or multicast over private networks. Soon, most will be unicast over a public network. Whenever I have looked at demand and thought that I just could not see the growth maintaining its torrid pace, I have been shown to be wrong. Maybe I’m a little gun-shy, but I don’t see the growth of demand for bandwidth significantly dropping in the next few years. What do you think? 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