What is “exaflood” anyway? “Exaflood” stems from the term exabyte, or 1.074 billion gigabytes. Two exabytes equal the total volume of information generated in 1999. The Internet currently handles one exabyte of data every hour.
This mushrooming amalgamation of data is pushing the Internet to its limits. In other words, the exponential explosion of digital content on the Internet, while useful if not necessary day to day, is posing some interesting challenges.
YouTube alone consumes as much bandwidth today as the entire Internet consumed in 2000. Users upload 65,000 new videos every day and download 100 million files daily, a 1,000 percent increase from just one year ago. The market research firm IDCpredicts that this year the amount of information created will surpass, for the first time, the storage capacity available.
Interested to learn more about the exaflood? Take a look at this short video from Fiber To The Home about the issue.
httpv://youtu.be/c4988qaCvvM
