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We at Last Mile are always trying to get our readers more involved with the magazine. We're interested in communicating your interests and concerns about bridging the digital divide and deploying broadband so that we can provide you with a better publication. In hopes of sparking a direct dialogue with our readership, we invite you to send us your questions about the broadband industry to our Ask the Expert department. When you send a question, our crack staff will find out the answers from the industry's top minds and publish it online and in print. If your question is published, we'll send you a snazzy Last Mile T-shirt to show off in front of all your friends. Fill out the form below to get your question answered.

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Internet content keeps growing at an exponential pace. Content will continue to balloon as users demand more broadband applications from data to video and voice. If networks can't keep up, today's high-speed connection could be tomorrow's no-speed connection.

This strain on broadband capabilities and surge of Internet content is often called the Exaflood, a term derived from exabyte, or about 1 billion gigabytes. The Internet currently handles one exabyte an hour. In two hours, the Internet processes as much content as was created in all of 1999. Maintaining the status quo with current broadband networks will result in just that — status quo, standstill. We at Last Mile welcome the exaflood as it will urge innovation, better technology, new services and applications to shore up broadband infrastructure and meet the data deluge head-on.

Exabyte me, we say. We're ready. And now you show you're ready too with our nifty T-shirt. It's black with "Exabyte me" on the front and a brief definition of exabyte on the back. Can your broadband infrastructure handle the exabyte? It's time to start thinking about it.