The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network

[fredan-nanog at fredan.se (fredrik danerklint)]

> The media market has fragmented, so unless we're talking about the first
> week in February in the US it's not all from one source or 3 or 5.

Explain further. I did not get that.

> So far the most common delivery format for quad HD content online rings
> in at around 20Mb/s so  you're not delivering that to 10Mb/s customer(s).

Isn't 20 Mbit/s more than 10 Mbit/s? (If so, we're taking about
10 000 customers * 20 Mbit/s = 200 000 Mbit/s or 200 Gbit/s).

> On the other hand, two weekends ago I bought skyrim  on steam and it was
> delivered, all 5.5GB of it in about 20 minutes. That's not instant
> gratification but it's acceptable.

About 40 - 50 Mbit/s. Not bad at all.

Downloading software does not have to be in real-time, like watching
a movie, does.


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//fredan