[94356] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Sat Jan 20 16:37:13 2007
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:36:11 +0000
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: "Rodrick Brown" <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>, booloo@ucsc.edu,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <A657FB6F-F3E4-4737-9289-2F1D10D6021F@multicasttech.com>
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Marshall wrote:
Those sorts of percentages are common in Pareto distributions (AKA
> Zipf's law AKA "the 80-20 rule").
> With the Zipf's exponent typical of web usage and video watching, I
> would predict something closer to
> 10% of the users consuming 50% of the usage, but this estimate is not
> that unrealistic.
>
> I would predict that these sorts of distributions will continue as
> long as humans are the primary consumers of
> bandwidth.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
That's until the spambots inherit the world, right?
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Marshall wrote:<br>Those sorts of percentages are common in Pareto distributions (AKA<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Zipf's law AKA "the 80-20 rule").<br>With the Zipf's exponent typical of web usage and video watching, I<br>would predict something closer to<br>10% of the users consuming 50% of the usage, but this estimate is not
<br>that unrealistic.<br><br>I would predict that these sorts of distributions will continue as<br>long as humans are the primary consumers of<br>bandwidth.<br><br>Regards<br>Marshall<br></blockquote></div><br>That's until the spambots inherit the world, right?
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