[110850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Jan 20 18:37:42 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
In-Reply-To: <20090120233151.GA3835@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:37:34 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:31 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>> "Cisco VNI projections indicate that IP traffic will increase at a
>> combined
>> annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly
>> doubling
>> every two years. This will result in an annual bandwidth demand on
>> the
>> world's IP networks of approximately 522 exabytes2, or more than
>> half a
>> zettabyte."
>>
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10145480-62.html
>
> duh...
>
> from a much earlier thread...
>
>
>>> that lesson is, the installed base is meaningless, and how we did it
>>> before is meaningless, all that matters is getting growth right.
>>>
>>> Mike O'dell... Mo's Law. 1994
>>
>> I believe the quote is What installed base?
>>
>> /vijay
>
>
> to play devils advocate, how much impact does caching have
> on the total traffic flow anyway?
Less and less would be my estimate. How much video is cached ? How
much P2P is cached ?
Regards
Marshall
>
>
> --bill
>
