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As Internet traffic reaches a peak of 220m words a second, total gridlock approaches collapse
Every day at about 5pm, Keith Mitchell watches to see if the Internet in Britain is about to collapse. That is the time when the flow of traffic between the 88 top-level Internet service providers in the UK reaches its peak - a vast 1.3 gigabites per second, equivalent to five copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica each second. Happily, every day so far the network has survived.
Every day at about 5pm, Keith Mitchell watches to see if the Internet in Britain is about to collapse. That is the time when the flow of traffic between the 88 top-level Internet service providers in the UK reaches its peak - a vast 1.3 gigabites per second, equivalent to five copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica each second. Happily, every day so far the network has survived.
But Mr Mitchell, executive chairman of the London Internet Exchange (Linx), knows that it is only a matter of time before something has to be done. He has watched over the past five years as the volume of data passing has increased by a factor of 120.
Even at its quietest - at about 4am - the network is now 30 times busier than it was five years ago.
"Currently we could take 30 times more traffic than we are actually putting through
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Warning: is your PC future-proof?
THE latest generation of computer equipment, which should make computers as
easy to use as hi-fis or televisions, is starting to appear on the market.
Most personal computers in the shops now cannot be upgraded to take advantage
of the easy-to-use systems. But because there is no agreed policy on labelling
equipment, unscrupulous or ill-informed dealers can continue to sell equipment
that owners will only later find cannot be used in this way.
At present, to add equipment to a PC you need to know how to edit software,
allocate memory and avoid the problem of clashing signals going in and out of
the machine from the add-on hardware. The new system is designed to take all
this hard work out of building a more powerful computer system, making it is
as easy to use as a TV.
“When you turn on a TV set,” says Jeremy Gittins of the American software
giant Microsoft, “you don’t get error messages coming up on the screen.”
The new PC systems will operate to an industry standard known as plug-and-
play. Plug-and-play will eventually guarantee that any PC will work with any
add-on equipment. The customer will be able to buy a CD-ROM drive, sound
synthesiser and digital video decoder, plug them in and play mul