DEMAND FOR BROADBAND TRAFFIC
Internet/multimedia traffic is expected to grow much faster than users:
- Increasingly multimedia-intensive content
- With new broadband applications.
- Traffic 25 times larger in 2002 than in 1998
- continues to grow at a 20% CAGR over the next decade.
- Data/multimedia 85% of total traffic by 2002
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Half of Internet/multimedia traffic will remain international,
- Growth in non-US users counterbalances the growth in national servers
- Less US-centric Internet traffic.
Sources: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, SpiNet