Eric, let me take a quote from that article:
"But even these turbocharged connections have an Achilles heel--if 2 million people try to download the latest Star Wars movie trailer at the same time, traffic jams on the Internet become a bottleneck, slowing down each user's connection speeds."
These observations lead me to conclude that the author believes that the Internet's edges will shrivel, and the core will implode, if users suck too much data from remote content servers. Which of these are aided through the use of caching, the edge or the core? Both?
How much of "the Internet's" total flows do you feel are currently attributable to consumer download types of traffic, as opposed to VPNs, extranets, and other commercial enterprise uses? Would you or anyone else here care to guess? What are the traffic classification breakdowns now, next year, five years out, in this regard?
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
