[100412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Oct 23 03:14:35 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3345.1193120894@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Now if any of you guys have a lead on an affordable way to get 225 40GigE's
> from here to someplace that can *take* 225 40Gig-E's... ;)
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EPO0611.pdf
It does not cost all that much, relatively, to upgrade a network once
the basic wiring is in place . that.s the big original cost. For
example, a university campus in the Midwest that serves 14,000 students
and faculty, recently estimated it would cost about $150 per port (per
end user) to replicate their current 100 Mbps network for a five year
period, or about $30 a year per user. To upgrade to 1000 Mbps (1
gigabit) it would cost $250, or about $50 per year. University campuses
are like small towns or suburban neighborhoods. Once cable companies
and companies like Verizon make their initial fiber investment, the
relative cost of upgrading bandwidth to customers is small.
