[110851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Jan 20 18:41:11 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <5C44BDC4-18F7-41E2-B798-615AFD873D73@multicasttech.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:41:07 -0500
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On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>> 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 ?
Define "cached".
For instance, most of the video today (which apparently had 12 zeros
in the bits per second number) was "cached", if you ask the CDNs
serving it.
Sounds to me like that is significant, no matter how big your network
is.
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TTFN,
patrick
