Internet traffic isdoubling every six months on average.  Internet traffic is indeed increasing, but at a fourfold annual rate.  The expected rapid but not astronomical growth of Internet traffic is likely to have important implications for networking technologies that are deployed and for industry structure.



Internet

Internet traffic is defined as the number of bits of data flowing in the highway during a specified period.  Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet.  Internet traffic as viewed by ISPs can be thought of as placed into three categories: Sensitive, Best-Effort, and Undesired.  Internet traffic is built upon an infrastructure consisting of individual computers, routers, and the Internet backbone.  Internet traffic can be increased by improving the performance of the Internet.  Internet traffic is measured by ping, a test in which the time taken by an information to travel in a circular route without loss of information is measured.  Internet users are accustomed to interacting with the Internet using agraphical user interface ("GUI").  Internet usage in the Asia-Pacific region is increasing in both directions due to increased e-mail and e-commerce transactions and will continue to expand.

Exchange

Reasons Not to Build an Internet ExchangeIf there are fewer than three Internet Service Providers in a region, an Internet Exchange is unnecessary.  If there are few Internet users in a region, there will be little local Internet traffic to exchange, and an Internet Exchange is not necessary.

Performance

Traffic Shaping defines bandwidth rules (or partitions as some vendors call them) whereas Application Acceleration using multiple techniques like TCP Performance Enhancing Proxy.  A computer in the “time out” state will experience network performance limited to the speed of a 56kbps modem.  Actually, that explanation reverses the effect and the cause; thereare always applications that demand more bandwidth than is currentlyavailable; and the very fact of availability of bandwidth to providefor acceptable performance of an application is exactly what causes itswide acceptance.

Backbone

Internet traffic is built upon an infrastructure consisting of individual computers, routers, and the Internet backbone.  The speed of the Internet backbone is limited by traditional carriers such as telephone lines, where the maximum speed was 256 kbps.  Any design for future Internet backbone technology mustbe able to sustain the exponential growth.  This means that the capacity of long-distance networks (backbones) neededto provide adequate service is far less than the combined capacity of localexchanges.  This means that practically all traffic generated by local Internet serviceproviders is going through nation-wide providers' backbones.  The most frequently proposed "new Internet" architecture assumes thatbackbone ISPs will have ATM backbones interconnected likewiseat several exchange points (the more complicated routing algorithmsrequired for connection-oriented networking make the routing flapproblem even worse for global ATM networking), so the resourcereservation on switched virtual circuits could be performed acrossseveral backbones.

Voice

The growth of data traffic is so high that it has overtaken voice traffic over the years.  Among the applications driving corporate traffic are VPNs, telecommuting, videoconferencing and voice over IP.  Video requires a much higher bandwidth than does for instance voice,and if video over the Internet takes off it will be the dominant trafficin terms of bits per second.  However, the telephony has essentially only one application,voice transmission.  In addition to this, they also argue that due to this uncertainty and to the fact that so many parties benefit from Internet traffic, it is very difficult to ascertain the cost that traffic would incur given that the determination of price for Internet traffic is so different from that of voice telephony.

These parties say that Internet traffic is more like long distance traffic,where the local phone company does not terminate the call locally, but rather hands thecall off to a long distance company that carries the call over its interstate network to adistant location.  Some parties argue that Internet traffic is not local, because it often begins in onestate and ends in another state, and therefore should not be subject to reciprocalcompensation.  So, like many other Internet problems, the bestsolution to dealing with junk Internet traffic is to do nothing at all.