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Americas Issue: November 2006
Feature
Speeds & Feeds Meet the Needs
Equipment at the edge must process and handle data quickly, appropriately and cost effectively.
by Deb Mielke
In a 2003 study, the University of California at Berkley estimated the world was generating 5 exabytes (1018) of new data (up from between 1 and 2 exabytes in 1999) — data that did not stay in one place.
The study found that radio, television, telephone and the Internet alone (excluding the movement of data stored on optical or magnetic media) generated nearly 18 million terabytes of information flowing to more than 1 billion of the world’s 6.5 billion inhabitants connected to the Internet.
A number of things have changed since 2003. There are more, and more inexpensive, ways to generate and store data: HDTV, flash drives, personal video recorders, MP3 players (with video), camera phones, home video security systems, 10 megapixel digital cameras, videoblogs, double layer/dual format DVD burners, BlueRay DVD, hard drives with capacities of more than 500GB, and more people sharing the data generated by these devices.
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