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