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Up Eclipsing Down: End of an Era

Take a look at a presentation given by David P. Reed (CableLabs’ CTO and not that other David P. Reed) to the FCC’s Technological Advisory Committee in April. Slide 6 shows the ratio of download traffic to upload traffic trending down from 2.0 to 1.4 in just the months of May to September 2001. There’s no data for later than that. Here’s a screen capture of the relevant chart:

Is it reasonable to assume that the trend has continued? If so, by now, we’re uploading more stuff than we’re downloading.

Wow! So much for thinking of the Internet as a broadcast medium.

(Thanks to Dewayne Hendricks for pointing me to this document.)

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