[94048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Sun Jan 7 15:23:19 2007
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:20:17 GMT
To: jabley@ca.afilias.info
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> wrote:
>If I acquire content the same time as many other people, since what =
I'm watching is some coordinated, streaming event, then it seems far =
more likely that the popularity of the content will lead to network =
congestion, or push up a peak on an interface somewhere which will =
lead to a requirement for a circuit upgrade, or affect a 95%ile =
transit cost, or something.
>
>If asynchronous delivery of content is as free as I think it is, and =
synchronous delivery of content is as expensive as I suspect it might =
be, it follows that there ought to be more of the former than the =
latter going on.
>
Completely agree here.
$.02,
- - ferg
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