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Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010

Lambaste industry group behind study predicting failures

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Nov 25, 2007 3:39 PM CST

(Newser) – Ominous warnings earlier this week of a looming Internet disaster are highly misleading, suggest critics. "As we've stated previously, most warnings of capacity armageddon come from traffic shaping companies looking to sell hardware," the industry web site Broadband Reports writes about a recent... Read full story »

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