Editorial

Crisis? What crisis?

Kerviel + Subprimes + Madoff = financial crisis, with effects on the increase of the unemployment, the rate of failure of companies, and the increase of the Internet traffic. 62% a fourth quarter on Amsix, 80% on the points of exchange of central Europe, 25% on the Southern Europe, 40% on Asia, 100% on Middle East, we would be rather in a crisis of growth.

At the users whose purchasing power is in decline, the evolution of the interactive leisure activities at home replaces little by little the releases. In addition, the explosion of the services on motives, which established a tremendous growth driver for the publishers of contents through a much vaster installed base than that of the users of Internet, and for the FAI a source of additional incomes, still increases the traffic of the accommodated services.

Then, that to think of the immmediate future of the operators and the suppliers of on-line contents? According to the professionals of the sector, gathered recently in Global Peering Forum in which Neo Telecoms participated, the international report seems the same: No slowing down on the growth of the traffic, the demand of hosting always superior of 17% for the offer, the need of reneval of equipments displayed these last 5 years to support the traffic, deployment of new cables under sailors to link Asia and Middle East, and more and more greedy on-line services in bandwidth with the horizon as the TV HD and tomorrow the relief.

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