Nemertes Research
Nemertes Research is a research-advisory firm that specializes in analyzing and quantifying the business value of emerging technologies headquarted in Mokena, IL. The Times called it " a respected American think-tank".
Research Focus Areas
Nemertes Research focuses in the following areas:
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Network Management and Operations
- Network and Internet
- Security and Information Protection
- Unified Communications and Collaboration
- Virtualization and Data Center
Internet Infrastructure
Since 2007 Nemertes has published widely publicized annual reports on Internet infrastructure trends focusing on bandwidth demand versus build-out, and more recently, logical Internet issues involving IP address depletion and route table scalability. In particular, it has recentnly published a widely noted report, "Internet Interrupted: Why Architectural Limitations Will Fracture the 'Net" that the internet as a whole will run out of capacity at some point between 2010 and 2012. , These finding havce supported the positions on the need to increase internet capacity taken by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA),, . The conclusions of this report have been criticized by Timoth Karr in the Huffington Post , and by Andrew Odlzyko, as reported in The New York Times .