Backups: Network planner's gotcha

Want to get serious about capacity planning? Cisco is betting the farm on continued explosion of Internet speeds and volume. The company's latest guess is for 767 exabytes by 2014, driven by, Cisco believes, video demand. Add VOIP and collaboration technologies to the mix and a network planner may be left rummaging through his toolbox for a better way.

6. Cloud backups ("Where's the phone # for my ISP?") As users of some consumer online backup services such as Carbonite have learned, one needs serious upload speeds to make offsite backup and restore feasible. Prepare to pay more to push backup packets to the cloud.