The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network

Fri Feb 8 14:15:40 UTC 2013

"Multicast"

Aled

On 8 February 2013 13:42, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> "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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>