Google warns Internet not capable of supporting television broadcasts
February 9th, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 68 times, 1 so far today
Google warns Internet not capable of supporting television broadcasts
Search engine giant Google has warned in a statement that the internet infrastructure has not been designed to support online broadcasting of television services.
The company specially referred to services like Joost and their own YouTube.com saying that growing popularity of these services could bring the global network to its knees.
Telecom companies around the world are continuously investing in the infrastructure to make sure that the current traffic load can be met.
However, things are only going to get worse from here.
Vincent Dureau, Google’s head of TV technology said in a statement: “The Web infrastructure and even Google’s (infrastructure) doesn’t scale. It’s not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect.”
The company said that they are offering their services to work together with cable operators to combine its technology for searching for video and TV footage. In addition, their advertising can also be integrated with cable networks’ high-quality delivery of shows.
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February 11th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Is there a link available to the original statement?
February 12th, 2007 at 8:34 am
This is rubbish….. You PAY your Internet company to provide a decent Broadband speed. (When subscribing to Broadband) It is up to those— providers to upgrade their own infrastructure and stop trying to cause another panic like Y2K just to get more government hand outs. They can create server farms handling people on smaller nodes instead. Or ISPs can create local servers in the DSLAM/Central Office to take like 90% of the load from off the central Internet. This is rhetoric at it’s best and very much a non issue…. ISPs are paid to fix this problem.