Research shows that the Internet is expanding by more than 10 million new, strategic pages every day. Network traffic is forecast to double every two years through 2011. The global appetite for connectivity from business and consumers is causing an unprecedented demand to access data anytime, anywhere, from any device. Consumer expectations now transcend simple access to the Internet to “always live” computing.
 
Bandwidth and upload demands of HDTV and peer-to-peer networks such as Bit Torrent, the explosive growth of search engines like Google and Yahoo, social and entertainment networks like Facebook and YouTube, and the evaporation of the IP address space are all symptoms of the need for major upgrades in carrier network capacity to ensure quality of bandwidth services to end-users for both business and pleasure. Sunset technologies—such as 19th century copper wire line and 20th century broadcast television—are rapidly being replaced by fibre optic networks.