OK, so maybe not fit for purpose is a bit strong, but it does go to show that our ability to achieve some of the things we’ve talked about (especially cloud based solutions) is going to face some pretty difficult challenges.

Bandwidth is the unspoken barrier to the cloud, we assume it to be there but in reality it isn’t consistent enough (yet) for us to rely on it providing the necessary connection to all the great things we want to achieve.

Application architects and solution providers will need to think creatively about how we build applications that take this into account.