The Video Revolution
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Video driven bandwidth demand has risen significantly over the past year. And it seems that the video is starting to kill the ‘Internet’ star, that is if internet service providers does not come up with a solution to the eve increasing demand for high bandwidth and fastest download speed. But other peer to peer technologies like BitTorrent thinks it can help with the growing problem. It is common knowledge that videos consume huge network resources than any other multi media available on the net today. The smallest and poorest video quality available in You Tube today consumes a huge amount of bandwidth than email, music downloads and voips. What more if you throw in a full length HD video in to the scenario. It greatly depends on compression used. For a fact, 1 HD video stream can consume 20mbps of bandwidth. So more users tend to subscribe to the fastest speeds available at home . While the video sites like You Tube continue to come up with all kinds of videos to feed the growing demands. And to top all that, it is estimated that by 2013, video viewers will reach a whopping 1 billion users.