[140749] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed May 18 17:12:39 2011
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:51:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Jaeggli" <joelja@bogus.com>
> On May 18, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Holmes,David A wrote:
> > I think this shows the need for an Internet-wide multicast
> > implementation.
>
> there's a pretty longtailed distribution on what people might chose to
> stream. static content is ameniable to distribution via cdn (which is
> frankly a degenerate form of multicast), but lets face it, how many
> people watched "Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog" in east palo
> alto last night at 10pm.
Of course. But that's a strawman. What percentage of available titles, by
*count*, accounts for even 50% of the streamed data, in bytes? 2%? 1?
Cheers,
-- jra
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