[94351] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Sat Jan 20 14:48:36 2007
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:43:54 +0000
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "David Ulevitch" <davidu@everydns.net>
Cc: "Rodrick Brown" <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>, booloo@ucsc.edu,
nanog@merit.edu
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The Internet: the world's only industry that complains that people want its
product.
On 1/20/07, David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net> wrote:
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> Rodrick Brown wrote:
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> > On 1/20/07, Mark Boolootian <booloo@ucsc.edu> wrote:
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> >> Cringley has a theory and it involves Google, video, and oversubscribed
> >> backbones:
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> >> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070119_001510.html
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> > The following comment has to be one of the most important comments in
> > the entire article and its a bit disturbing.
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> > "Right now somewhat more than half of all Internet bandwidth is being
> > used for BitTorrent traffic, which is mainly video. Yet if you
> > surveyed your neighbors you'd find that few of them are BitTorrent
> > users. Less than 5 percent of all Internet users are presently
> > consuming more than 50 percent of all bandwidth."
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> Moreover, those of you who were at NANOG in June will remember some of
> the numbers Colin gave about Youtube using >20gbps outbound.
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> That number was still early in the exponential growth phase the site is
> (*still*) having. The 20gbps number would likely seem laughable now.
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> -david
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The Internet: the world's only industry that complains that people want its product.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Ulevitch</b> <<a href="mailto:davidu@everydns.net">
davidu@everydns.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>Rodrick Brown wrote:<br>><br>> On 1/20/07, Mark Boolootian <
<a href="mailto:booloo@ucsc.edu">booloo@ucsc.edu</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>> Cringley has a theory and it involves Google, video, and oversubscribed<br>>> backbones:<br>>><br>>>
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070119_001510.html">http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070119_001510.html</a><br>>><br>><br>> The following comment has to be one of the most important comments in
<br>> the entire article and its a bit disturbing.<br>><br>> "Right now somewhat more than half of all Internet bandwidth is being<br>> used for BitTorrent traffic, which is mainly video. Yet if you<br>> surveyed your neighbors you'd find that few of them are BitTorrent
<br>> users. Less than 5 percent of all Internet users are presently<br>> consuming more than 50 percent of all bandwidth."<br><br>Moreover, those of you who were at NANOG in June will remember some of<br>the numbers Colin gave about Youtube using >20gbps outbound.
<br><br>That number was still early in the exponential growth phase the site is<br>(*still*) having. The 20gbps number would likely seem laughable now.<br><br>-david<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>
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