[133107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Dec 4 17:57:42 2010
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:56:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> Level 3 is functioning not only as a transport provider for smaller
> content providers, but also as an aggregated negotiation service,
> though in this case the content provider, Netflix, is big enough to
> matter. (Some years ago, when they were DVDs by mail only, it was
> estimated that they had a bandwidth about 1/3 that of the total (US?)
> internet, just with slightly higher latency) (or significantly lower
> latency, if you were still on modems.)
A station wagon full of magtape, yes. Henry Spencer?
I recently calculated the capacity of a 747F full of LTO-4 tapes; it's
about 8.7 exabytes. I *think* it's within weight and balance for the
airframe.
Cheers,
-- jra
