[110852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Jan 20 18:49:31 2009
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
In-Reply-To: <5C44BDC4-18F7-41E2-B798-615AFD873D73@multicasttech.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:49:14 -0500
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 2009-01-20, at 18:37, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> Less and less would be my estimate. How much video is cached ? How
> much P2P is cached ?
If you asked Akamai, Limelight and friends, they might tell you that
100% of important video is cached. And viewed from some angles, every
peer who receives a block of data and offers to serve it to others is
caching that block of data for the benefit of other peers.
Joe
