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- -- "William B. Norton" <bill.norton@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 1/9/07, Fergie <fergdawg@netzero.net> wrote:
>
>> I think it remains to be seen that that model will actually change
>> dramatically to more of a "semi- real-time" model, regardless of
>> the desires (or fears) of various vendors or operators.
>
>Hmm...I should have been more clear. I'm comparing the options a video
>guy has : buy transit to distribute the videos, buy CDN services, buy
>a mix or transit and peering, or use P2P. I have sample configurations
>and cost models for each, and cost them in units of $/video
>distributed for side to side comparison.
>
>From the reviews and discussions it was interesting how entrenched and
>enraged some people became when the p2p distribution model costed out
>to be the cheapest by far:
>

Well, cost issues speak for themselves.

Adoption issues, of course, are another issue entirely. :-)

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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