SkyCache/Cidera replacement?

Mon Sep 20 22:10:23 UTC 2004

> From owner-nanog at merit.edu  Mon Sep 20 14:37:38 2004
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:31:03 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: SkyCache/Cidera replacement?
>
> > Hadn't it gotten to the point shortly before Cidera folded that the
> > satellite bandwidth was so insufficient for a "full feed" that it was of
> > questionable value?...or was it still fine if you wanted a usenet feed
> > with no binaries?
>
> Probably.  Yes.
>
> IIRC, a full feed of usenet (3 years ago) was approx 250GB+ per day.  The
> overwhelming majority of that was multi-part binaries.  Cut them out and
> you should have plenty of room across the transponder, which (again, 3
> years ago) was capable of DS3 capacity.
>

According to contacts at some of the big outsourcing providers, bandwidth 
reqirement for a 'full feed' these days, substantially exceeds the capacity of
100mbit full-duplex ethernet. something like 1.5+TB/day.  Growth rate in still 
excess of 30% annually.  Most of the recent traffic growth coming from Denmark.