Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Joe Abley <jabley () ca afilias info> wrote:

> If I acquire content the same time as many other people, since what  
I'm watching is some coordinated, streaming event, then it seems far  
more likely that the popularity of the content will lead to network  
congestion, or push up a peak on an interface somewhere which will  
lead to a requirement for a circuit upgrade, or affect a 95%ile  
transit cost, or something.
> If asynchronous delivery of content is as free as I think it is, and  
synchronous delivery of content is as expensive as I suspect it might  
be, it follows that there ought to be more of the former than the  
latter going on.
>

Completely agree here.

$.02,

- - ferg

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