[94029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Sun Jan 7 08:24:26 2007
In-Reply-To: <87FC3C77-02E1-454F-8581-1C7BE5801738@multicasttech.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 13:18:43 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > That might be worse for download operators, because people may
> > download
> > an hour of video, and only watch 5 minutes :/
> So, from that standpoint, making a video file available for download
> is wasting order of 90% of the bandwidth used
> to download it.
Considering that this is supposed to be a technically
oriented list, I am shocked at the level of ignorance
of networking technology displayed here.
Have folks never heard of content-delivery networks,
Akamai, P2P, BitTorrent, EMule?
--Michael Dillon
