[IP] Re: BBC iPlayer risks overloading the internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:56 PM
To: David Farber
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Subject: Re: [IP] BBC iPlayer risks overloading the internet

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:07:13 PDT, The Beeb said:

> The success of the BBC's iPlayer is putting the internet under severe strain
> and threatening to bring the network to a halt, internet service providers
> claimed yesterday.

A "severe strain" and "to a halt".  Wow, this sound serious..

> The BBC said yesterday that its iPlayer service, an archive of programmes
> shown over the previous seven days, was accounting for between 3 and 5 per cent
> of all internet traffic in Britain, with

Or not.

Let's make the assumption that it's *all* new traffic, and that it will
eventually expand to twice its current levels.  So what they're saying is that
the network can't handle another 6-10% traffic?

What's wrong with this picture?

And what fools designed their network such that they don't have room for
6-10% future growth, and who's fault is that?

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