There’s so much talk online about the Internet, covering so many things: access and consumer choice and volume and capacity. We’ve decided to add to the conversation by posting a short ‘Internet 101’ – a way to make sure we’re all on the same page when it comes to the Internet basics – how we connect, who maintains the networks, bandwidth versus bitrate, etc. etc.

But this presentation also goes beyond the basics, and includes some staggering statistics about the phenomenal growth of the Internet: 10 million new Internet users each month; backbone traffic doubles every 12-15 months; and from 1996 to 2006, basic Internet traffic grew from 1.5 million to 700 million gigabytes/month. The presentation also touches on the some of benefits of broadband deployment, going beyond the ‘usual suspects’ of faster music and video downloads.

So take a minute, and check it out – I hope you’ll find it as interesting as I did.

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