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The public Internet needs to evolve to have more...

The public Internet needs to evolve to have more capacity, quality and security to support an estimated more than 50 billion connected devices generating half of all traffic by 2030, said a report sponsored by Liberty Global (http://bit.ly/1Dm19Wj) released Thursday.…

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IP interconnection agreements are seeing “a significant increase” and there’s “growing imbalance” of IP traffic from streaming video, the report said. Disputes concern less than 1 percent of all interconnection agreements, and the market seems well positioned for growth, investment and innovation, the report said. By 2020, most Internet use will still involve “the current ‘best effort’ public internet,” the report said. “But the public internet also needs to evolve further."