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ZDNet  VeriSign's goal: Bump up internet bandwidth 1,000 times
Summary: CTO Ken Silva explains how the company will carry out
Project Apollo, which aims to increase internet root server
bandwidth to meet 4 quadrillion queries a day  To deal with the
flow of information over the next 10 years, the capacity of the
internet will need to increase by a factor of a thousand,
according to US security company VeriSign. The company,
which administers one of the root servers of the internet, has
started a project to deal with the expected increase in
bandwidth demand.  Project Apollo was announced by VeriSign in
March, with the aim of strengthening the .com and .net domains.
The company's chief technology officer Ken Silva talked to ZDNet
UK to give details of how VeriSign plans to increase internet
server bandwidth.  Q: Why was Project Apollo put in place? A:
Over the next decade, anything that informs or entertains will
be connected to the network, deliveri