User demand for internet services(is the infrastructure ready?

摘要

The Internet is growing. As a source of spectacular innovation, the Internet and its frontier mentality brings thousands of new kinds of bandwidth-hungry applications and new uses to an ever-growing mass of businesses and consumers at a pace that the communications industry has never seen before. This paper reviews three global Internet access infrastructure ‘categories'. It presents the issues these network architectures and their owner's face and finally reviews potential solutions that can improve the access network's flexibility in adapting to the social and technological tsunami that has become the Internet. The question of‘is the infrastructure ready ?' is answered with how to make it resilient to user demands for capacity and economical access balancing shareholder demands for profitable operations.