Will Internet TV Crash the Internet?

According to lately conducted studies by Analyst groups and Cisco because of the increased use of Web TV, the internet is heading for a crash unless it increases its bandwidth capabilities.

"Uploading bandwidth is going to have to increase, and the cable providers are going to get killed on bandwidth as HD programming becomes more commonplace", said Stan Schatt, research director at ABI. He added that the solution to the problem is to change to digital switching and move to IPTV.

Schatt was also backed up by Cisco Systems` research. The Cisco report predicted that video streaming and downloads will increase to make up to 30 percent consumer internet traffic in 2011, up from the 2006 figure of nine per cent.

However, the internet overload had not started yet regarding an ASA investigation by Orange.