Experts and scientists suggest that the Internet could be on
the verge of collapse and reach its limit for only eight years.
The internet is losing its capacity plus it seems that is
unable to keep up with the demand for ever faster transmission of data,
according to scientists, reports British newspaper "Daily Mail".
Leading engineers, physicists and representatives of
telecommunications companies have been invited to a meeting later this month in
London's Royal Society to discuss what can be done to prevent the crisis and
the collapse of Internet.
The boom that was started from the internet tv, services,
powerful computers have increased the pressure on our communication
infrastructure, said, "Daily Mail".
Cables and optical fibers that send information in our lap
tops, smart phones and tablet computers could reach its limit over the next
eight years.
Andrew Ellis, a professor at the University of Aston in
Birmingham, said that in the last decade the speed of the Internet increased
dramatically, while fiber optic cables reach the maximum of their physical
capacity and can not carry out more light than now.
He adds that the Internet now consumes the same amount of
energy as the airline industry, which accounts for about two percent of the
energy consumed in developed countries, and this is only for data transmission,
and if we add the electrical energy consumed by electronic devices, this
percentage rises to eight percent.
Internet companies can put new cables, but this method is
expensive, and the problem is the amount of electricity required for data
transmission because if the internet is faster, it takes more energy.
Installing new cables could also mean that we could run out
of power within 15 years.
Ellis says that it is therefore necessary to talk about this
issue now, or to determine what can be done to prevent future crises, according
to "Daily Mail".