Bzzzt! statement makes no sense. Even if everyone in the world had a half dozen such devices you wouldn't hit most.
I've seen the 100 billion devices online estimate and that includes internet connected refrigerators, coffee makers, thermostats and washing machines. None of those need gigabit per second speeds to notify you that the rinse cycle is done or a filter needs to be replaced.
Hey, I am still trying to figure out how to use my bag phone from 1995!
GE is working on an industrial internet making each large machine send thousands of data points back per second, that will take some data.
The older technologies (2g, 3g, etc) will be deactivated, and any device needing to connect will have to use the current provider (5g, as per the article). So, while they won’t need blinding speed, it is all that they can hook to.
The 100 billion number sounds high, but likely will be close by then we are already more than 10%+ there today.
I agree. There may be 100 billion connected devices but the vast majority of them will exist because they will be using older technology and the cost of building them has become so cheap.
I think we will see this pervasive connectivity change industry as it becomes easier for fewer people to manage a factory, for example, via connected devices.
I've been in this business for 35 years.
I remember when 10mbs Ethernet was infinity, if it's not watercooled it's a terminal, why disrupt everything over TCP/IP when SNA works just fine. etc.
And those were reasonings I held, not just something I heard.
Hell, everyone knows Netscape is better than Explorer, right? Novell's NDS outclassed Active Directory by many magnitudes.
I have a lot more respect for such predictions now days as I've been on the wrong, naysaying side of every major change in technology over the last 35years.
Haven't you?
Are you accounting for every device behind a NAT connection? The idea behind IPv6 is that every device in the world could have a unique, individual IP address. Since IPv6 is a 128-bit addressing scheme, you could have up to 2^128 hosts or 340 undecillion (3.4 x 10^38) unique addresses.
“How many bloody G’s are there” Ozzie Ozborne