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Re: BBC iPlayer risks overloading the internet
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:05:08 -0700
________________________________________ From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:56 PM To: David Farber Cc: ip Subject: Re: [IP] BBC iPlayer risks overloading the internet On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:07:13 PDT, The Beeb said:
The success of the BBC's iPlayer is putting the internet under severe strain and threatening to bring the network to a halt, internet service providers claimed yesterday.
A "severe strain" and "to a halt". Wow, this sound serious..
The BBC said yesterday that its iPlayer service, an archive of programmes shown over the previous seven days, was accounting for between 3 and 5 per cent of all internet traffic in Britain, with
Or not. Let's make the assumption that it's *all* new traffic, and that it will eventually expand to twice its current levels. So what they're saying is that the network can't handle another 6-10% traffic? What's wrong with this picture? And what fools designed their network such that they don't have room for 6-10% future growth, and who's fault is that? ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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