TELCOS and Internet service providers (ISPs) are having a hard time keeping up with the amount of data traffic that’s increasing every day, thanks to YouTube, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and the proliferation of social networking sites.
One solution is to increase the size of the “pipe” — the actual data lines that carry data from other countries to here — but the cost is prohibitive because it requires the physical laying down of undersea cables.
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