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