[140750] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed May 18 17:14:58 2011
In-Reply-To: <4DD42BC6.8030706@mompl.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:56:00 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
> Joe Abley wrote:
>>
>> Or perhaps even some kind of new technology that is independent of the
>> Internet! Imagine such futuristic ideas as solar-powered spacecraft in orbit
>> around the planet bouncing content back across massive areas so that
>> everybody can pick them up at once.
>>
>> Crazy stuff.
>
> You mean like a sputnik?
sputnik was VERY low bandwidth though... if you wanted to stream a
current movie, you'd likely have to have started when sputnik actually
launched to be sure you'd be able to watch it next year.
