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Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Sat Jan 28 14:04:40 2012

Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:03:54 -0800
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Tei <oscar.vives@gmail.com>
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Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 1/27/12 02:35 , Tei wrote:
> Can internet in USA support that?   Call of Duty 15 releases may 2014
> and 30 million gamers start downloading a 20 GB files.  Would the
> internet collapse like a house of cards?.

Given the way the these things are staged, the pre-order/pre-load model
works pretty well. I would expect that many users sufficiently
interested in Battle Field 3 to acquire it for launch day, already had a
copy cached locally that unlocked itself at the right time. Mine did.

To the extent that cached content can be tweaked via patching the
distribution system can substantially anticipate the release of product.

> If not, will be internet USA ready for the next next generation? ( 2018 ).
> 
> 



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