The Coming Internet Traffic Jam

Yesterday's NY Times ran a front page story on how increasing application demands threaten the ability of the Internet infrastructure to meet user needs.  The article mostly talks about the impact of video, and cites our recent report "The Internet Singularity, Delayed" in which we noted that rising Internet application demands are likely to cause increasing access network contention issues.  One has to wonder what happens when YouTube launches "YouTube HD" (assuming they can justify the investment in storage infrastructure required to support HD video on-demand).