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Re: Google wants to be your Internet
From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:58:44 +0100
* Rodrick Brown:
"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."
s/BitTtorrent/porn, and we've been there all along. I think the real issue here is that Google's video traffic does *not* clog the network, but would be distributed through private networks (sometimes Google's own, or through another company's CDN) and injected into the Internet very close to the consumer. No one is able to charge for that traffic because if they did, Google would simply inject it someplace else. At best your, one of your peerings would go out of balance, or at worst, *you* would have to pay for Google's traffic.
Current thread:
- Re: CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet), (continued)
- Re: CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet) Mark Smith (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Charlie Allom (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Travis H. (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jeremy Chadwick (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jeroen Massar (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Stephen Sprunk (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Alexander Harrowell (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Mark Smith (Jan 20)