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Experts warn sites such as Amazon and eBay at risk as internet reaches full capacity

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By John Glenday, Reporter

August 14, 2014 | 2 min read

A group of experts are warning websites to brace for increased down time in future as the infrastructure of the net reaches full capacity.

Parts of the net infrastructure are now said to be hopelessly out of date and thus unable to provide the necessary bandwidth that today’s online giants need to function properly.

eBay recently suffered a major technical fault that saw users unable to log-in, seriously impacting trade on the platform, a situation which analysts attribute to the creaking web infrastructure which is now groaning under the weight of millions of additional users.

Specifically this arises from the Border Gateway Protocol, BGP, a web road map which allows businesses and larger networks to communicate directly across hundreds of thousands of paths.

Browsers who visit a site associated with one of these areas rely on routers to navigate to these spaces but these machines are now feeling the strain of making many more connections from a growing array of internet capable devices such as smartphones and tablets.

To remedy the situation calls have been made for investment in a new generation of routers with massively beefed up memory and processing power to cope with demand.

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