Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

while most of us seem to remember traffic doubling every nine months or a year (and some have memories of that being the meme then) [0], capacity build was massively above that level. think of the compound rate one gets when one substitutes owned wet glass for a few leased stm-1s. to quote a friend if a network's capacity grows O(10**6) in 6 years, measured in miles*gigabits/sec, how would you describe it? randy -- [0] - we're seeing about 50% broadband growth a year in japan according to thems that track, see Kenjiro Cho. "Broadband Traffic Report" Internet Infrastructure Review vol.4, pp18-23. August 2009.