The Internet: the world's only industry that complains that people want its product.
On 1/20/07, David Ulevitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rodrick Brown wrote: > > On 1/20/07, Mark Boolootian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
