BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

Tue Oct 23 06:58:03 UTC 2007

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> Now if any of you guys have a lead on an affordable way to get 225 40GigE's
> from here to someplace that can *take* 225 40Gig-E's... ;)

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EPO0611.pdf
   It does not cost all that much, relatively, to upgrade a network once
   the basic wiring is in place . that.s the big original cost. For
   example, a university campus in the Midwest that serves 14,000 students
   and faculty, recently estimated it would cost about $150 per port (per
   end user) to replicate their current 100 Mbps network for a five year
   period, or about $30 a year per user. To upgrade to 1000 Mbps (1
   gigabit) it would cost $250, or about $50 per year. University campuses
   are like small towns or suburban neighborhoods. Once cable companies
   and companies like Verizon make their initial fiber investment, the
   relative cost of upgrading bandwidth to customers is small.