Here’s an observation that happened to serve as the basis of a keynote I had the opportunity to give the other day, at the TIA 2016 “Network of the Future” conference, in Dallas: Yes, it would be wonderful indeed if broadband service providers saw 50% annual revenue growth — if only to offset that 50% in additional capacity they’ve had to build, year-after-year-after-year, every year, since about 2009.
But that’s not the case, as we all well know. Here’s what is: In four years (by 2020), 82% of the world’s Internet traffic will be video.
