A report released by Nemertes Group on Internet growth comes to the conclusion that the Internet will require billions of dollars of infrastructure improvements. Lacking those improvements, sections of the worldwide network will begin to see "brown-outs" due to lack of service support.

No kidding.

From the article:

The study is the first to "apply Moore's Law (or something very like it) to the pace of application innovation on the 'Net," the study says. "Our findings indicate that although core fiber and switching/routing resources will scale nicely to support virtually any conceivable user demand, Internet access infrastructure, specifically in North America, will likely cease to be adequate for supporting demand within the next three to five years."

Now there's an interesting thought -- The Internet falling under its own weight...

Read the full article over at InfoWorld:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/19/Internet-could-run-out-of-capacity-in-two-years_1.html?source=NLC-TB&cgd=2007-11-20