In a little over a year the amount of traffic flowing across Linx has risen from approximately 30 gigabits per second to more than 67 Gbit/s. In 2000 it was barely hitting 5 Gbit/s, the equivalent of a DVD film every 10 seconds.

It was bound to happen, but still, when you dig out the projections of net traffic growth from 1997 and compare them to today's numbers, we're spot on. No one was really smoking that much crack.

Maturing net growing more slowly