The Future Of The Internet

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to users who were never able to get on during the troubled ordeal.

Some people are predicting, because of the length of Internet calls and
the amount of bandwidth the calls take, that one day in the not so distant
future, the entire telephone network, or at least a great portion of it,
will cease to function, and all telephone calls will fail to connect. This
idea is referred to by some as the "Gridlock Theory." Others advise that
steps can be taken to avoid such a disaster, such as upgrading phone lines
and limiting Internet usage. Following the gridlock idea is Ethernet
creator Bob Metcalfe, who believes that the slowdowns will only get worse.
"We recently had an outage... that denied 400,00 people access to the
Internet, in its entirety, for thirteen hours. I expect even worse cases
to develop this year." (Hunter, the Internet.)

It is estimated that twenty-five to thirty million users currently are
on the Internet. According to a recent study by Pacific Bell, and ...

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