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Re: Google wants to be your Internet
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:43:54 +0000
The Internet: the world's only industry that complains that people want its product. On 1/20/07, David Ulevitch <davidu () everydns net> wrote:
Rodrick Brown wrote: > > On 1/20/07, Mark Boolootian <booloo () ucsc edu> wrote: >> >> >> Cringley has a theory and it involves Google, video, and oversubscribed >> backbones: >> >> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070119_001510.html >> > > The following comment has to be one of the most important comments in > the entire article and its a bit disturbing. > > "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." Moreover, those of you who were at NANOG in June will remember some of the numbers Colin gave about Youtube using >20gbps outbound. That number was still early in the exponential growth phase the site is (*still*) having. The 20gbps number would likely seem laughable now. -david
Current thread:
- Google wants to be your Internet Mark Boolootian (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Rodrick Brown (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Owen DeLong (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet David Ulevitch (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Alexander Harrowell (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet David Ulevitch (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Rodrick Brown (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Randy Bush (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Charlie Allom (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Adrian Chadd (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Mark Smith (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Mark Smith (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)