On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 06:49:14PM -0500, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 2009-01-20, at 18:37, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > >Less and less would be my estimate. How much video is cached ? How > >much P2P is cached ? > > If you asked Akamai, Limelight and friends, they might tell you that > 100% of important video is cached. And viewed from some angles, every > peer who receives a block of data and offers to serve it to others is > caching that block of data for the benefit of other peers. > > > Joe
aha... so taking a peek at my nearby BT tracker & client, it seems that there is abt 12% "duplicate" traffic. wildextrapolation -- poor caching design/flaky networks have a 10-15% extra traffic load, "just to make sure". i'd guess that 10% of a femto (or is it the other way) byte of traffic relates to real money. --bill