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Re:Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive by mkaszkowiak on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:11AM (#38305513)
> A 10Gbps link fully utilized (minus some overheads), translates roughly to 3 Petabytes per month, that's 36 petabytes per year, almost double their advertized amount of bandwidth needed for calls per year.

I understand this is napkin math, but shouldn't we consider that the load isn't evenly distributed? - in which case 50% average utilization seems extremely high

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Re:Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive by zynker on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:39AM (#38305935)
Sure, so multiply it by whatever you want. 10? You still get 100k a year and not almost a million, or $1.7M :)

100k a year for 100GBps, leaving it up to you to calculate how many petabytes per year you can pass with that.

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