Re: Google wants to be your Internet

["Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

The Internet: the world's only industry that complains that people want its
product.

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