#541266 - 10/24/1007:21 PMOuch: Netflix pwns internet traffic
Ben Dover
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Registered: 06/12/09
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Loc: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
This is ugly. The cloud won't work too well until network undercapacity gets addressed. Fiber optic can't keep up of course, and aint cheap - Europeans have started to go over to wireless ( apparently they feel the solar events problems are addressable/fixed/whatever ).
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Netflix has been in the news lately due to several outages and a cause may have been found. It could be that the problem is Netflix itself. According to Sandvine, Netflix is responsible for 20.6% of all peak period traffic in North America. Be careful of success, it may be your undoing.
You may think of Netflix as that mail-order DVD business, but the company’s growth as an Internet video-on-demand (VoD) service has been explosive. Now, if only the Internet can keep up with the demand.
#541336 - 10/25/1009:54 AMRe: Ouch: Netflix pwns internet traffic
[Re: Ben Dover]
trey
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Registered: 01/02/03
Posts: 5104
Loc: The Wizard's Balcony
I know I've been sucking up my share of bytes and bits from Netflix. I only just signed up a litle over a month ago, and only with the idea of copying a few DVDs here and there. But now I'm totally in love with the Instant Watch feature. The few things that I can't watch instantly, I'll put in my queue for hard copy... but that list only has like four things, as compared to my instant queue which has something like 70+ movies.
I guess I'm mostly getting concerts and the like from the hard copy queue.
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