"This is an important research question because we can see mobile traffic going up over the next decade by a factor of 10 or even a factor of 20. "
Wtf are they going to do with that? Always-on video from wireless devices everywhere? Holographic movies on every web page? It sounds terrible. I remember having to make phone calls for basic communication. These days you send a text or email, except now and then you want the higher bandwidth of a voice call. That is, we have been moving toward LESS bandwidth rather than more.
Whatever is imagined being done with all the new bandwidth can’t be good.
Voice calls don’t use much bandwidth compared to video. People who watch one video a day could start watching ten videos, and so they need 10 times the traffic. Maybe today only one person (out of n persons) watches a video per day, but in a few years ten people watches a video per day - again 10 times the traffic.
"This is an important research question because we can see mobile traffic going up over the next decade by a factor of 10 or even a factor of 20. "
Wtf are they going to do with that? Always-on video from wireless devices everywhere? Holographic movies on every web page? It sounds terrible. I remember having to make phone calls for basic communication. These days you send a text or email, except now and then you want the higher bandwidth of a voice call. That is, we have been moving toward LESS bandwidth rather than more.
Whatever is imagined being done with all the new bandwidth can’t be good.
Voice calls don’t use much bandwidth compared to video. People who watch one video a day could start watching ten videos, and so they need 10 times the traffic. Maybe today only one person (out of n persons) watches a video per day, but in a few years ten people watches a video per day - again 10 times the traffic.