Life begins at 40Gbit/s

A study in 2007 by Nemertes Research predicted that North American Internet usage could rise to around 40 exabytes a month by the end of 2013, based on a doubling of traffic each year from 2008. An exabyte, in case you're not familiar with it, is a billion billion bytes. Next year, global Internet demand will be firmly in the exabyte range, with analysts broadly agreeing that aggregate traffic will surge past 10 exabytes per month.