The New York Times reports that heavy usage of video is driving Internet traffic through the roof — increasing by 50% every year according to conservative estimates (or 100% a year, if you believe the aggressive forecasters).

Last year, by one estimate, the video site YouTube, owned by Google, consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet did in 2000.

The good news: service providers are racing to meet the demand. For our part at SilverDock, we provision redundant servers in highly-connected data centers on multiple continents, to ensure that your video content has the best possible deliverability.

Filed under: YouTube, reliability, video