Such techniques have pushed the cost of carrying traffic on fiber down to about 1% of what it would cost on all-electronic equipment, and it will keep falling.
All the talk about the social cost of traffic congestion is a canard.
Content providers are largely in favour of the idea, based on the simple premise that more traffic equates to increased cost.
Verizon should be able to handle 4G traffic in a more cost-effective way than 3G, which will eventually boost its returns on invested capital, said Chaplin.
Macy's prices some of its specials at or below cost to drive traffic, said Martine Reardon, the chain's executive vice president of marketing and advertising.
Page had hours this morning to think about the fact that the company badly missed Street expectations for both revenue and profits, with a quarterly reprot that featured a big drop in margins, higher traffic acquisition costs and falling cost per click.
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In the late 1960s microwave replaced copper wire as the mainstay of long-distance phone traffic: more volume at lower cost.
And, as Weibo traffic grows, so does the cost of compliance.
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It justified the cost by estimating annual river traffic of 12 million tons.
For the past couple of years, business was getting tougher and more competitive, traffic was getting worse, and the cost of living was spiraling up.
Europe's business market is more limited, too: Fewer routes have enough traffic to sustain the frequency of low-cost departures that could attract business passengers.
"If someone identifies a way to do something out there that makes a lot of money, and there's a lot of traffic and a bigger market, then the cost will come down, " he said.
The real capacity-cost solution lies in using more sophisticated traffic management and pricing concepts than the data cap.
American Rivers claims the summer closure would affect less than 20 percent of barge traffic, an amount that could be replaced at cost by trains or trucks.
Though no estimates were provided by the company on the cost savings, it expects to achieve by adding regional traffic from other players in the market.
Moreover, traffic on the Internet dodges the fees, taxes and tariffs that inflate the cost of plain old phone service.
That stunt cost a tiny sum in marketing terms, but earned the company huge traffic from Digg's record-industry-hating users.
Add to this the incremental cost of every product we buy to compensate for shipping delays caused by traffic jams.
The ability to support this exponential rise in traffic will continue to pressure the entire Ethernet eco-system to continue to drive cost per bit downward, so that manufacturers, service providers and users can be offered cost-effective, standards-based solutions, products and services.
Rush-hour delays and longer commuting times for people who live near Birmingham Interchange or Euston station in London could result as the volume of traffic is set to increase, and again it is difficult to estimate the precise economic cost, the IEA reasons.
For a start, it will give breathing space to low-cost carriers such as Interjet and Volaris, which have gobbled up 21% of domestic traffic since 2005 but have been kept out of many of the most profitable routes by the older airlines.
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