Posted on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
As smartphones and video streaming double the crunch of data carried over mobile networks each year, big advances in optical transport, data filtering and networking are keeping the Internet from collapsing under its own weight. The gains, often unheralded, have allowed mobile network operators to continue selling unlimited broadband packages to customers who, despite their often voracious data habits, have been spared from sharing the cost of the strains being put on the system.
