Michael Kleeman and Roger Bohn Quoted on Capacity of Wireless Networks
UCSD Study: Not Enough Bandwidth for an 'Internet of Things'
11/03/2011
Scott M. Fulton, III,
ReadWrite Enterprise
Yesterday's groundbreaking proposal by IBM for a new and open-source asynchronous protocol for machine-to-machine (M2M) Internet communication, called MQTT, cites a projected 1000x (put another way, 100,000%) increase in broadband device-generated traffic by the year 2020, and the need for a formal protocol for managing it all. Now, a study from the University of California San Diego's Global Information Industry Center (GIIC) projects, using data supplied by numerous sources including the FCC and network systems leader Cisco, suggests that bandwidth of that magnitude doesn't just simply fall out of the sky.
Without even taking into account the M2M traffic increases IBM researchers seek to facilitate, state Michael Kleeman, director Roger Bohn, and the GIIC team, the rate of mobile traffic growth is forecast by analysts to be a mere 1,800% over four years. GIIC is responsible for the annual "How Much Information?" report which estimates, as reliably as any research institution has been able to do so far, how much data is served to information workers globally through servers every year. For 2010, the number of bytes breached the 22nd power: 9.57 zettabytes.
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Michael Kleeman is a senior fellow at IGCC and involved in several projects involving homeland security and critical infrastructure protection, including "Training and Exercises in California Homeland Security." Kleeman is a technology industry strategist whose particular skill is in bridging technical and business issues. For more than 30 years he has been involved in the technology industry in engineering, planning, management, and advisory roles.
Roger Bohn is Director of the Global Information Industry Center (GIIC). His most recent research analyzes the transition from art to science in manufacturing, as in the famous Italian company, Beretta. Bohn can provide commentary on questions about high-tech and international manufacturing, the electronics industry, and the data storage industry. He is a consultant to industry in the areas of manufacturing ramp-up, process improvement, product development, and organizational management.
