[94392] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucy Lynch)
Sun Jan 21 09:42:15 2007
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:41:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Lucy Lynch <llynch@civil-tongue.net>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9F824F18-CE91-4C69-AC4E-E9DFF647C6D2@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> I tend to take the long view.
>
sensor nets anyone?
research
http://research.cens.ucla.edu/portal/page?_pageid=59,43783&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
business
http://www.campbellsci.com/bridge-monitoring
investment
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184400339
global alerts? disaster management? physical world traffic engineering?
