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Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue May 14 15:32:44 2013

Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 13:06:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Or I don't.  Which is not completely impossible.

In this piece:

  http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/netflix-puts-even-more-strain-on-the-internet-1200480561/

they suggest that Akamai and other ISP-side caching is either not
affecting these numbers and their pertinence to the "backbone" at all,
or not much.

Did they miss something?  or did I?

Cheers,
-- jra
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