The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network

Fri Feb 8 13:42:05 UTC 2013

"Akamai".

The actual example is "to watch the Super Bowl". :-)

fredrik danerklint <fredan-nanog at fredan.se> wrote:

>- Well, as it turns out, we don't have that kind of a problem.
>
>- You don't?
>
>- No, we do not have that kind of a problem in our network.
>   We have plenty of bandwidth available to our customers,
>   thank-you-every-much.
>
>- Do you have, just to make an example, about 10 000 customers
>   in a specific area, like an city/county or part of a
>   city/county?
>
>- Yes, of course!
>
>- Does these customers have at least 10 Mbit/s connection to the
>   Internet?
>
>- Yes! Who do you think we are, like stupid! Haha!
>
>- Could all those 10 000 customers, just to make it theoretical,
>   hit the 'play'-button on their Internet-connected-TV, at the same
>   time, to watch the latest Quad-HD movie?
>
>- Yes. Oh wait a minute now! This is not fair! Damn. We're toast.
>
>
>-- 
>//fredan

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